So, it seems Canada has once again taken a dive into the pool of over-sensitivity. Just recently, they decided to Ban a song in Canada on radio, by Dire Straits called "Money For Nothing", because it makes reference to the word "[censored]" in the song. Am I the only one who finds this to be completely absurd, especially due to the fact this song was released in 1985 (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_for_Nothing_(song)).

Personally I find this to be ridiculous. Especially compared to some of the "lyrical mess" that is normal for modern society.


EDIT: Error in title. I know.

Blacklisting a song that has been on the air for twenty five years without causing any problems does seem ridiculous. Now if they were requiring that the specific word be bleeped out that I could understand - yes it's censorship but at least it would be enforced across the board. On that note, while some may find my edit of your OP amusing please remember that we do have a forum auto-censor in place and it should not be bypassed. This includes partial bypasses, like eg*d, e***, or even a simple ****.

At least I fixed your title while I was at it.

Thank you for fixing it. And I was worried people may not understand if the word, but noted. And ya, they didn't pass it as just beeping it out. It was just instantly passed off as banned. Also, I find it weird because, the song isn't refering to an actual homosixual. It's referring more towards people who hate their jobs, and only do it for money, asides from people who do it based on the love of what they do. This also confuses me, especially compared to alot of racial content in songs on the radio. :toughninja: WE MUST RIOT! Lol

I agree it's a bit harsh to ban the entire song. they should have heard the lyrics my friends and I put to it LOL

I differ on how the word is used. I think it's more derogatory, esp with "little" in front of it.

ymmv

The absurd thing is, it was only ONE person who complained. How can one complaint change the landscape?

How funny the song is banned because of a "beeped" work, but it's ok to say "chicks for free". Geez talk about degrading women eh? So it's ok to degrade women in 2010, but a song from over 20 years ago, we can't listen to now eh?

Sometimes I am so embaressed to be a Canadian.

This reminds me of how there are schools in the US that banned The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for containing the word [censored].

:facepalm:

Censorship works against one's sense of critism... What I mean is that if you don't want people to think for themselves, use propaganda. Luckily, over here, on the french part of the country, most radio and media are french and don't care about english "bad words". Anyway most of the radios' public don't even understand english songs lyrics, let alone meaning.
I'm against most form of censorship.

And now its being reprinted with those words omitted... Which I disagree with. A disclaimer saying "This book contains some words that are no longer considered acceptable today. These words were a part of normal speech at the time this book was based and their presence are in no way an endorsemant of use of these terms" or something similar, fair enough, but whitewashing history....

I really hope you did the "eh" thing on purpose. its bad enough living up to a stereotype, but on a forum as well? lol

on-topic, yes, I'm sorry. canadian broadcast standards basically means :facepalm:

Yeah I love to do that for fun. I don't talk like that in real life, but here on the forums I do it to show I am Canadian eh. Funny thing though
talking about sterotypes. For Canadians, we put EH at the end, but if you are a New Yorker, they put the EH at the begining.

I can't understand them at all. It was only one complaint. ONE. I could undersand if it was in the tens of thousands, but one person?

I wonder if this goes for Rap songs as well. Some times I hear the "N" word on the radio. I wonder if this needs to be banned as well
now? Do you thik this is getting a bit out of hand?

Maybe because I am straight this seems like a non issue. What do the people in the gay community think of this? I would like to hear
from their perspective to get a better understanding.

And if you're a New Zealander, you use eh to make everything into a a question, eh?

Quit http://www.vureel.com/video/14843 eh! (Funny documentary.) It actually does a funny little clip were a guy says eh every other word and they pop up a "translation" on the screen. Eh is our Swiss Army knife of words.

Annnyway, back on topic. This whole 'Money for nothing' thing is a bit much. I'm quite anti-homophobia but never got offended by this song.

Bannin Mark Knopfler is a nogo, that's like banning a giant pile of awesomeness that fell out of the sky riding a giant [censored] dragon.

It's not like that little [censored] with the earring and the makeup, that [censored] that's his own hair, is really that controversial, the song isn't homophobic, it's just anti glam rock, it's written 'in-character'. Besides didn't Knopfler release a censored version of the song?
he says trucker and digger instead of [censored] in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlPjxz4LGak version of the song (Yes that's Eric Clapton in the pink suit)

lol, good to know.


absolutely, and as a fan of rap music I can say that they don't play the really bad stuff(like there is some hardcoe stuff out there) but mostly the garbage that is corrupting youths all across the world. I'm not going to go into names, but I think you know what I mean. all they sing(yes, sing, its not even rapping anymore) about is six and/or drugs and/or money. so they'll put crap like that on, but not the real stuff like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz_Fir2p5gg

The Canadian eh is used the same way (somewhat). It makes a question out of a statement to incite the listener to confirm that they are indeed listening, usually with a "Mm-hmm".

"The weather is nice, eh?"
"Yup."
"We can just walk then, eh?"


It's a very short question, politely asking the listener if the speaker should continue speaking.

Haven't met many people in the more metropolitan areas of Canada that use it (which might be why the other Canadians in this thread are using it incorrectly). But the rural area I come from it's quite rampant (my mom has a full on rural Ontario accent, which sounds similar to the Nova Scotian accent. "I'm gonna get in my ker and drive down the rood.")

oh my... I actually burst out laughing when I saw this.....went to visit a good friend who had moved up there a while back, and it felt like an entirely different continent, with the geography and culture. it's a great place.

american libraries banned Maus because it portraid the jews as mice, americans as dogs, germans as cats, and the french as frogs. i love that song but why ban it???? he just says "hey look at those [censored]" and just because of that, they ban it? there are a lot more songs out there that have tons objectionable content that dont get banned.

PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!!

I don't get why anyone would censor media materials. I mean, I can go down the street and buy a copy of Mein Kampf(American bookstore), why censor some song(canada), or ban a book set in a specific time-period (american schools)? THey seem very tame in comparison.