At the risk of offending my Canadian readers, this is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.How about we have songs with no words in them? This way we would never offend anyone, except song lovers.
Sounds good to you?
The Daily Mail reports that it may be a classic rock song but 26 years after it was first released Dire Straits hit Money For Nothing has been banned from radio.
The song was ruled too offensive for the airwaves in Canada because it contains the word “faggot” and can now no longer be played in its original form.
Any station that wants to play the song will have to edit it or disguise the word, according to a ruling by the Canadian Broadcasts Standards Council.
The decision came after a listener complained that the broadcast of unedited version of the song – which mentions the word faggot three times – was “extremely offensive” to gay, lesbian and bisexual people.
The songs second verse contains the offensive word three times.
It says: ‘The little “faggot” with the earring and the makeup. Yeah, buddy, that’s his own hair'
‘That little “faggot’s” got his own jet airplane. That little “faggot” he’s a millionaire'.
The entire verse is edited out of some versions of the song, or the word is simply replaced.
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Faggot, faggot, faggot!!!
Do these Canadian politcos realize that they've just increased sales of Dire Straists in Canada?
