Next time you complain about the US PC Police, be glad you don't live in Canada

[FLPanhandle]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/dire-straits-money-nothing-censored-broadcast-panel-rules-20110112-175448-551.html
OTTAWA - The 1980s song "Money for Nothing" by the British rock band Dire Straits has been deemed unacceptable for play on Canadian radio.

In a ruling released Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council says the song contravenes the human rights clauses of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code.

A listener to radio station CHOZ-FM in St. John's, N.L., complained last year that the song includes the word "faggot" in its lyrics and is discriminatory to gays.

The broadcaster argued that the song had been played countless times since its release decades ago and has won music industry awards.

A CBSC panel concluded that the word "faggot," even if once acceptable, has evolved to become unacceptable in most circumstances.

The panel noted that "Money for Nothing" would be acceptable for broadcast if suitably edited.


I thought the Mark Twain editing was going overboard, now this. At least the Twain edits were done by an individual group not the government. Jeez, What started off with good intentions has lost it's common sense.

[The Magistrate]

1. Here, Sir, It Has Been Played With the Word Digitally Mirrored For Years

Listen close if you hear it on the radio, sounds like 'teggaf'....

[dionysus]

2. depends on the company broadcasting it. they just recently changed it here.

and they also just started editing "do goody good bullshit" from a pink floyd song...

[Warren DeMontague]

3. They also let C. MacKinnon write their anti-porn laws, and the first porn that was banned

was gay and lesbian porn.

Censorship is censorship, whether it's the "F" word or pictures of sex, or a dire straits song or huck finn.

But it's worth noting that the FCC enforces similar content restrictions here, for over-the-air broadcasts.

[JI7]

5. this is for over the air broadcast also isn't it ?

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Right, that was the point of the last sentence.

It doesn't sound that different from what we've got here.

[Kievan Rus]

6. Catherine MacKinnon is an extremist idiot

[TlalocW]

4. I'm sorry but faggot doesn't mean gay...

It refers to a jackass on a loud Harley.

TlalocW

[EOTE]

7. Not any more.

It's been deemed too offensive. The new term if bikecurious.