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Linda Ronstadt booed off stage
Woodrow:
--- Quote from: Jome on July 20, 2004, 10:49:27 PM ---Fine, but you still can't say it's not censorship..
If a couple had sex on stage (like a couple did in Norway some weeks ago), and they were taken off stage, that would also be censorship because some people didn't like it.. wouldn't it.. ?
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So, people countering your opinion with their own, differing, opinion and speaking with their check books is censorship? Nope. It's not censorship just because you misread your audience. When the GOVERNMENT says you can't do something under penalty of law, that's censorship. When private actors level sanctions/boycotts against other private actors, that's freedom of association
Jome:
--- Quote from: Woodrow on July 20, 2004, 11:01:35 PM ---So, people countering your opinion with their own, differing, opinion and speaking with their check books is censorship? Nope. It's not censorship just because you misread your audience. When the GOVERNMENT says you can't do something under penalty of law, that's censorship. When private actors level sanctions/boycotts against other private actors, that's freedom of association
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People pulling you off stage because they do not like the movie you're plugging, and banning you from returning = Censorship.
--- Quote ---censoring.
# A person authorized to examine books, films, or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.
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Done.
The concert people considered it to be politically objectionable, they CENSORED her.
Rain:
sure, the hotel could fire her - but to escort her off the property like a criminal, not even allowing her to go to her hotel room and collect her belongings - thats something else.
u tell me to go up to my boss and tell him to kiss my ass - thats nothing like this situation - she didnt insult anyone, she never said anything bad about the hotel or her fans attending the concert. all the fuck she did is say she liked a movie and dedicated a song to Michael Moore - it isnt offending anyone, it isnt being rude.
and even if freedom of speech doesnt cover this, no one answered the question why an artist should get punished for speaking her mind?
eS El Duque:
--- Quote from: Jome on July 20, 2004, 09:32:27 PM ---They edited out Jada's "Why did Bush knock down them towers?" line, that's not freedom of speech.
Being escorted off stage because you encourage someone to go see a movie, how will you categorize that.. ?
--- Quote ---Before singing "Desperado" for an encore Saturday night, the 58-year-old rocker called Moore a "great American patriot" and "someone who is spreading the truth." She also encouraged everybody to see the documentary about President Bush (news - web sites).
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This is too funny..
If Eminem told people on stage to go see 8 Mile, how would that be dramaticly different.. ?
Unless she made personal attacks against Bush, I can't see what fuckup she has done.. ???
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she was in america dissing the president...maybe the people at the concert love the president??? so they bood her....
Jome:
--- Quote from: eS El Duque on July 20, 2004, 11:18:13 PM ---she was in america dissing the president...maybe the people at the concert love the president??? so they bood her....
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Who said she was dissing the president.. ?
The article only says she recommended a Michael Moore movie.
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