SprCForr SprCForr:
Yes it is otherwise you could hear that particular song on the radio as the artist wrote it.
You said I'm OK with a bureaucrat deciding what word I'm allowed to hear, which is a strawman I took exception to. Now you're changing it to "someone decided what word I can hear on the radio only." That's better.
SprCForr SprCForr:
That's right, and if it's powerless whats the point? As matter of fact, I think I'm of the position that the CBSC doesn't need to exist all..
If you heard your toddler repeat a word like "nigger" or "cute" and found out they got it from the TV or radio while you were in the kitchen making lunch, I bet you'd be mad, wondering how stuff like that could slip through. If not you, I bet at least half the posters here on your side hypocritically would. I used to be against censorship on the radio or daytime TV too (as early as five years ago) but that all changed when I realized how easily and how readily children repeat words they overhear. They don't know proper context, and I doubt the average listener does these days either.
SprCForr SprCForr:
I'm afraid it's you who has missed the point. Someone has decided what words you'll hear over a radio. I'll leave the rest of the strawman alone.
You said a bureaucrat, which would be government or its agent, has decided what words I'm allowed to hear, like the word was banned period, like it was Big Brother 1984 or something paranoid like that. That's different than private enterprise deciding what words are acceptable or not on the radio for voluntary member radio stations. Very different.
SprCForr SprCForr:
Yes, songs have been altered in the past. Yes, I found it be be foolish then too. So call BS all you like, the fact is, this particular ban has motivated people who have never written to protest before, to write in. Trying to stick a charge of homophobia to all this is astonishing. Do you not know the context of the song? If you truly believed disrespectful then you'd be ditching those Eminem CD's out of support, but you don't and that's hypocritical.
I never said the song was homophobic. I'm going to say to you the same thing I said to Canadian_Mind a few posts back... go back and read my past posts in this thread and then come back and try telling me I'm taking the song out of context. What I did say was that basically the lop-sidedness in people's opinions on the severity of the word "faggot" compared to other bad words can only be explained by a sense of feeling (in some people, not all) that homosexuals don't deserve the same respect as other demographics. I've spoken to many people that admit it, and I've heard many nonsense reasons for it, so I'm not going to be convinced that such mindset doesn't exist. I don't know which people here it is, because I don't know anyone here, so I can't point fingers at individuals quite yet, if at all. It might not be you. I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt that you're not one of them, so for sake of argument, don't take me as calling you a hypocrite.
SprCForr SprCForr:
If I'm reading you right, you're comfortable with the idea of some panel censoring what you and I get to hear. I'm not and you won't be until it's something important to you. What a shame.
I'm comfortable with the idea of a private panel advising member private radio stations what words are acceptable or not, just like I am with television.
****Mod Edit****If only adults listened to the radio, maybe I'd agree.
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