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In a magazine i subscribe to there is an article this mounth about the censorship of music.
Acoording to information they have gathered these are the top ten censorses of music between the dates 1980 and 1999.
In order from most censored to least:
Turkey, USA, South Africa, Israel/Occupied Territories, Chile, USSR and Russia (following the fall of the USSR), Czechoslovakia, Algeria, France and Britian.
The continent with the most censorship is The Middle East and NOrth Africa and the one with the least is the Caribbean.
This info is in the August issuye of the NEw Internationalist.
'As free market capitalism and technologhy expand the third worlds fertile soils become a desert waste land' The Last Emperor
'Set the revolution, let the things bust and thank us
When the smoke clear, you can see the sky again
There will be the chopped off heads of leviathan' - MF Doom (from Strange Ways - Madvillain)
South Africa used to ban films with violence and with interracial marriages and Tipper Gore's group tried a whole bunch of shit in the 80s much of the "information" for parents came straight from the relgious right. did you know a secret panel decides what movies get what ratings for movies?
yes, they are the ones who keep Walt Disney Frozen!!!
Resist Much. Obey Little
-Walt Whitman
<span style=\'color:gray\'>"As through this life you travel, you meet some funny men
Some rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen
As through this life you ramble, as through this life you roam
You'll never see an outlaw take a family from their home"
-from Pretty Boy Floyd
(W. Guthrie)</span>
Anyone heard of the anti-music censorship group called 'Parents for Rock and Rap'?
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yeah it was started by Mary Morello
I've got a video of Rage playing and before one of there shows Mary Morello comes out and speaks about this organization. The crowd responce to her speech is dissapionting, I'm sure i hear some booing by the end.
'As free market capitalism and technologhy expand the third worlds fertile soils become a desert waste land' The Last Emperor
'Set the revolution, let the things bust and thank us
When the smoke clear, you can see the sky again
There will be the chopped off heads of leviathan' - MF Doom (from Strange Ways - Madvillain)
It reached number one (In the charts), Then all of a sudden, There was no number one that week. :P
(Edited by Death at 4:57 pm on July 28, 2003)
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shows you how hypocritical the united states constitution is!they talk about free specah but they wont leave artists like eminem alone about the things they say.ridiculous.
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tell me about that org i havent heard of Mary Morello.
<span style=\'color:red\'>Free Milosevic!Free Serbia!</span>
God save the queen by the sex pistols, I am sure that that got banned.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
- Hanlon's Razor
Mary Morello is Tom Morellos mother she started Parents For Rock and Rap to combat the PMRC
Here is a web page that includs a letter from Mary descibing in very little detail about the organization:
http://www.theroc.org/roc-mag/textarch/roc...03/roc03-07.htm
I'm sure there is a homepage to this organization (if it still exists) somewhere. On a qucik glance i could not find but if you look around there's plenty of info avaliable.
'As free market capitalism and technologhy expand the third worlds fertile soils become a desert waste land' The Last Emperor
'Set the revolution, let the things bust and thank us
When the smoke clear, you can see the sky again
There will be the chopped off heads of leviathan' - MF Doom (from Strange Ways - Madvillain)
This photo was in the magazine as well, it's an example of america trying to stop people downloading pirate mp3's. It makes me laugh every time.
http://www.agroman.net/img/
Just click on the one that says communism.
'As free market capitalism and technologhy expand the third worlds fertile soils become a desert waste land' The Last Emperor
'Set the revolution, let the things bust and thank us
When the smoke clear, you can see the sky again
There will be the chopped off heads of leviathan' - MF Doom (from Strange Ways - Madvillain)
