Comments on: iTunes Canada Removes Murder Dancehall Music

By: Jason D

Jason D — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:36:31 +0000

I LeSage,
This isn’t censorship and certainly doesn’t violate the freedom of speech.

What would? if the government said that certain artists could not write, perform, record, or distribute their music at all. That’s censorship.

These artists are free to write, perform, and record their music. They can make deals with venues to perform and shops to sell their goods. The government is not preventing either.

Should a business be forced to sell a product that violates their own conscience and principals?

Don’t worry about censorship until the government steps in to stop someone from saying something.

By: gordo

gordo — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:33:01 +0000

good grief! Does no one take Civics anymore?!

Everytime an issue like this comes up someone whines about “freedom of speech.”

By: Jim Burroway

Jim Burroway — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:51:59 +0000

These so-called “artists” are free to make whatever music they want. And iTunes is free to refuse to sell their music in the interest of public safety. Worry all you want about the niceties of speech; I’ll worry about people who are and have been murdered in Jamaica and elsewhere. Besides, “censorship” is a canaard — there is no government censorship here. This is all about free enterprise and the civic responsibility that iTunes has laudably undertaken.

By: I. LeSage

I. LeSage — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:48:58 +0000

What about free speech. It isn’t nice music, but I get worried when more people start to get censored

By: queerunity

queerunity — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:14:11 +0000

Outrage has been very succesful at cancelling many of these singers events but it doesn’t seem to curtail their anti-gay message which I really don’t understand at all.