Should glorifying evil things be illegal to say on the radio?

[aball1035]

My thought is this: If you can’t say the “F word” on the radio, why is it OK for people to glorify rape or murder? Should there be more stringent rules? A couple of examples are below.

DMX’s X is Coming
I’m comin in the house and I’m gunnin’ for your spouse
Tryin’ to send the ***** back to her maker
And if you got a daughter older then 15, I’ma rape her
Take her on the living room floor, right there in front of you
Then ask you seriously, whatchu wanna do?

Snoop Dogg’s 20 Dollars 2 my name
Nothing left to do, but buy some shells for my glock
Why? so I can rob every known dope spot
I got 19 dollars and 50 cents up in my pocket with what?
With this automatic rocket
Gotta have it to pop it, unlock it, and take me up a hostage

 

[LegoGE1947]

My thought is this: If you can’t say the “F word” on the radio, why is it OK for people to glorify rape or murder? Should there be more stringent rules? A couple of examples are below.

DMX’s X is Coming
I’m comin in the house and I’m gunnin’ for your spouse
Tryin’ to send the ***** back to her maker
And if you got a daughter older then 15, I’ma rape her
Take her on the living room floor, right there in front of you
Then ask you seriously, whatchu wanna do?

Snoop Dogg’s 20 Dollars 2 my name
Nothing left to do, but buy some shells for my glock
Why? so I can rob every known dope spot
I got 19 dollars and 50 cents up in my pocket with what?
With this automatic rocket
Gotta have it to pop it, unlock it, and take me up a hostage

Radio stations wouldn’t play this stuff if there were no market for it!

 

[Molokai_fire]

hey
I see what you saying, it accosts your senses to hear something so disgusting and perverted. If i could have my way I would say yes, ban it, and try and get us back to the good wholesome society we once were… unfortunately our world is too ‘liberated’ to accept that anything is not allowed and there would be major commentry and people claiming that you have taken away their right to freedom of speech and all that rubbish. Never mind that our little sisters and our girlfriends have to listen to disgusting stuff like that.
As it is i think you just have to censor your own life, try and block garbage like that out and let as many peeps out there as possible know how you feel, that way they might start to get the idea that we’re not all okay with everything.

 

[LegoGE1947]

hey
I see what you saying, it accosts your senses to hear something so disgusting and perverted. If i could have my way I would say yes, ban it, and try and get us back to the good wholesome society we once were… unfortunately our world is too ‘liberated’ to accept that anything is not allowed and there would be major commentry and people claiming that you have taken away their right to freedom of speech and all that rubbish. Never mind that our little sisters and our girlfriends have to listen to disgusting stuff like that.
As it is i think you just have to censor your own life, try and block garbage like that out and let as many peeps out there as possible know how you feel, that way they might start to get the idea that we’re not all okay with everything.

If today is “liberated” I think I’d just as soon be un-liberated.

 

[BlueEyedLady]

If you don’t like it turn it off. There are religious radio stations, oldies stations, rock stations, adult contemporary stations, rap stations, country stations, the list goes on. Turn off what you find offensive and turn on something else. But we are all responsible for making our own media choices.

 

[LegoGE1947]

If you don’t like it turn it off. There are religious radio stations, oldies stations, rock stations, adult contemporary stations, rap stations, country stations, the list goes on. Turn off what you find offensive and turn on something else. But we are all responsible for making our own media choices.

Be assured we do just that. We listen mostly to an all-news station WBBM Chicago.

 

[Tarpeian_Rock]

My thought is this: If you can’t say the “F word” on the radio, why is it OK for people to glorify rape or murder? Should there be more stringent rules? A couple of examples are below.

DMX’s X is Coming
I’m comin in the house and I’m gunnin’ for your spouse
Tryin’ to send the ***** back to her maker
And if you got a daughter older then 15, I’ma rape her
Take her on the living room floor, right there in front of you
Then ask you seriously, whatchu wanna do?

Snoop Dogg’s 20 Dollars 2 my name
Nothing left to do, but buy some shells for my glock
Why? so I can rob every known dope spot
I got 19 dollars and 50 cents up in my pocket with what?
With this automatic rocket
Gotta have it to pop it, unlock it, and take me up a hostage

Any authority that could make such statements “illegal” could just as easily categorize traditional Christian preaching - say, against “gay marriage” - as “hate speech” and make that illegal, too. (Not that such isn’t already being attempted in some places.).

 

[Seeker1961]

If you don’t like it turn it off. There are religious radio stations, oldies stations, rock stations, adult contemporary stations, rap stations, country stations, the list goes on. Turn off what you find offensive and turn on something else. But we are all responsible for making our own media choices.

 

[Kay_Cee]

If you don’t like it turn it off. There are religious radio stations, oldies stations, rock stations, adult contemporary stations, rap stations, country stations, the list goes on. Turn off what you find offensive and turn on something else. But we are all responsible for making our own media choices.

Sometimes you don’t have a choice. My young children were subjected to profanity blasted from another car while I was pumping gas. Because of the heat, I had to have my car windows down.

So saying “If you don’t like it turn it off” doesn’t always help.

Frankly, if it is something children shouldn’t hear, it shouldn’t be broadcast.

 

[aball1035]

But why is the F word not OK to say on the radio, but descriptions of other horrible things are? What are the politics behind it?

 

[Seeker1961]

Sometimes you don’t have a choice. My young children were subjected to profanity blasted from another car while I was pumping gas. Because of the heat, I had to have my car windows down.

So saying “If you don’t like it turn it off” doesn’t always help.

Frankly, if it is something children shouldn’t hear, it shouldn’t be broadcast.

So all media must now be designed not to offend the sensitivities of a six year old?

 

[BlueEyedLady]

Sometimes you don’t have a choice. My young children were subjected to profanity blasted from another car while I was pumping gas. Because of the heat, I had to have my car windows down.

So saying “If you don’t like it turn it off” doesn’t always help.

Frankly, if it is something children shouldn’t hear, it shouldn’t be broadcast.

Protecting your children from offensive content and explaining it when it does come up is your job, not mine, not the people at the gas station, and not the government’s. The world does not and should not conform to what is appropriate for small children.

 

[Regular_Atheist]

If the past few decades have shown us anything, people hate being told what they can and can’t listen to. Any major attempt to censor these songs would be a huge publicity boost for them. I also don’t believe the government, or anyone else, should have that much say over what I watch or listen to. To use an old favourite of the religious right, the slippery slope, it seems dangerous to me. If they can censor music, then why not political commentary that doesn’t support them? Could censorship be a gateway to the mass use of propaganda on the radio or the TV?

Probably not, but whether it’s right for the government to do so is still questionable. If you don’t like it, turn off the radio.

 

[centurionguard]

I Listen to the BBC News World at 6:00pm until 7:00pm every evening and I’ve heard as much as I need to know about the world for the day. Radio and TV is not a big thing for me.

Individual People have complete control what they choose to entertain their their minds with.
The choice is theirs alone…passively listen or shut the dang thing off.

 

[LegoGE1947]

If the past few decades have shown us anything, people hate being told what they can and can’t listen to. Any major attempt to censor these songs would be a huge publicity boost for them. I also don’t believe the government, or anyone else, should have that much say over what I watch or listen to. To use an old favourite of the religious right, the slippery slope, it seems dangerous to me. If they can censor music, then why not political commentary that doesn’t support them? Could censorship be a gateway to the mass use of propaganda on the radio or the TV?

Probably not, but whether it’s right for the government to do so is still questionable. If you don’t like it, turn off the radio.

If you weren’t posting here, you would be posting somewhere else. I will agree that trying to censor certain material just makes people that much more interested in hearing what they are missing. Thus the publicity boost.

 

[Kay_Cee]

So all media must now be designed not to offend the sensitivities of a six year old?

Frankly, yes. You act like there is something wrong with that.

We used to live in a world of ladies and gentlemen. In the entire time I was in high school, I heard only one word of profanity from one boy. When my daughters were teens, they were subjected to it on a daily basis.

 

[Kay_Cee]

Protecting your children from offensive content and explaining it when it does come up is your job, not mine, not the people at the gas station, and not the government’s. The world does not and should not conform to what is appropriate for small children.

Excuse me, but my children and I were the victims here. I should not have to leave a gas station in the middle of pumping gas (and leave behind all the gas I have already paid for, plus my change) because some dolt thinks it’s okay to blast profanity in the vicinity of kids.

You call yourself Blue Eyed Lady. I would like to think you are a lady, that you would not come down on the side of a person doing such things to children. Yet somehow you think I am at fault when I had done nothing wrong.

 

[BlueEyedLady]

Excuse me, but my children and I were the victims here. I should not have to leave a gas station in the middle of pumping gas (and leave behind all the gas I have already paid for, plus my change) because some dolt thinks it’s okay to blast profanity in the vicinity of kids.

You call yourself Blue Eyed Lady. I would like to think you are a lady, that you would not come down on the side of a person doing such things to children. Yet somehow you think I am at fault when I had done nothing wrong.

I don’t think that a few minutes of loud, inappropriate music is going to scar you children for life, and it certainly doesn’t make you a “victim”. I still maintain that it is not his job to raise your children, it’s yours. Frankly, they have probably already seen and heard far worse.

Besides, this is about the radio. If the profanity was that harsh he would have been listening to a CD, so broadcast restrictions wouldn’t apply.

 

[atheistgirl]

Excuse me, but my children and I were the victims here.

You’re not a victim.

Trying to claim some sort of victim status in this situation is indescribably offensive to people who really are victims!

You were pumping gas and some other car came in playing music you don’t approve of.

Rather than playing the victim card here and driving away leaving your gas and change, no doubt creating a panic impression to the kids in the car, I think it would have been much better to use the experience as a teaching and discussion opportunity.

And there’s a better an even chance your kids were preoccupied and didn’t even notice

You don’t approve of what was being broadcast and want people to support your point of view - that’s fine.

Do you equally support those who say some of the religious teachings they are subjected to on street corners while on the way to the park with their kids, you know, homosexuality is disordered and that kind of thing, is just as offensive to them, and they should have the same right as you claim here, not to be exposed to it?

Sarah x

 

[Kay_Cee]

You’re not a victim.

Yes, I was. I was forced to listen to something offensive. I was forced to have my little children listen to something offensive. I ached at the attack on their innocence.

Trying to claim some sort of victim status in this situation is indescribably offensive to people who really are victims!

I didn’t say I was a victim of violence. There are lesser degrees.

You were pumping gas and some other car came in playing music you don’t approve of.

Rather than playing the victim card here and driving away leaving your gas and change, no doubt creating a panic impression to the kids in the car, I think it would have been much better to use the experience as a teaching and discussion opportunity.

My children were subjected to foul language nobody should have to hear, and you call that an opportunity?

And there’s a better an even chance your kids were preoccupied and didn’t even notice

Guess again.

You don’t approve of what was being broadcast and want people to support your point of view - that’s fine.

Do you equally support those who say some of the religious teachings they are subjected to on street corners while on the way to the park with their kids, you know, homosexuality is disordered and that kind of thing, is just as offensive to them, and they should have the same right as you claim here, not to be exposed to it?

Sarah x

Now you’re trying to change the subject. I said nothing about differing points of view. I spoke about profanity only.