--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > wrote: > <snip> > > > Liberals have always wanted a larger role for > > > government than conservatives. But have you > > > *ever* known a liberal to advocate censorship? > > > > You mean besides you? > > I've never advocated censorship, as you know. > > > Well, Frank Zappa certainly felt that what Tipper Gore and her > > husband, Little Lord Fauntleroy, were doing vis a vis their > > proposal to label records a la the movie rating system was > > tantamount to censorship? > > > > Was Zappa wrong? > > Depends on what you mean by "tantamount to." It > certainly wasn't censorship per se. > > From a history of the PMRC: > > "While the sticker was not considered censorship, it led many record > stores to refuse carrying items that were marked with the label. Rap > and rock were hit the hardest as they found their sales dropping. By > the late 1980s, communities were passing ordinances that restricted > or prohibited the sale and airing of certain songs within their > localities, thus deepening the stake within the music industry's > heart." > > http://www.geocities.com/fireace_00/pmrc2.html > > The last sentence above describes genuine censorship. >
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