“We good now China?” is the question South Park and its writers have posed this week, in light of the latest spat between the TV series creators and the communist country. Earlier this week, an episode of the famous satirical series South Park was banned by the Chinese government. The reason of this radical reaction has to be[…]
Green Day’s frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has written an open letter to the school board of Enfield High School (Connecticut), accusing them of censorship, after the production of the band’s musical “American Idiot” was cancelled. Although the students had planned on putting on the rock opera, teachers intervened after parents expressed their concern on the musical’s content, which reportedly contains profanity,[…]
Spectre is released today in India, but it won’t be quite the same film as was released elsewhere. The Indian Censor Board took the decision to edit the film by reducing kissing scenes and cutting certain swear words. These actions led to the ironic hashtag trending in India – #SanskariJamesBond (“Sanskari” translating from the Hindi as “virtuous“). The[…]
Recently, the UK banned Tyler, The creator from entering the nation for a 3-5 year period, due to lyrics from the past that had the potential to incite violence, despite the rapper having been in the country only a couple of months ago. On 27 August, a few days after the ruling, Azealia Banks had her say on[…]