Comments on: VA: Now That XM Radio is Being Censored, It is Not Worth Paying For

By: Shadowbird

Shadowbird — Sat, 19 May 2007 08:11:06 +0000

BTW, isn’t Condoleeza Rice that ugly black chick in Bush’s office? Why would anyone with any kind of choice want to rape her? O_o

By: em'

em' — Fri, 18 May 2007 23:09:32 +0000

I hesitate to admit it… but that’s more along the lines of any fantasies I’ve ever had.

By: Michael Brutsch

Michael Brutsch — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:55:40 +0000

In Soviet Russia, Condoleeza Rice rapes You!

By: jenny984

jenny984 — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:13:35 +0000

Cute em, we missed you….sort of.

By: Myroid

Myroid — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:52:40 +0000

Very punny, em’.

By: em'

em' — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:43:07 +0000

Jen, that smoking ban really has you lit up, huh?

By: jenny984

jenny984 — Fri, 18 May 2007 13:20:50 +0000

Shadowbird~ I don’t really give two fucks what you “think” fits into this conversation. :) Go fuck your mother.

By: Shadowbird

Shadowbird — Fri, 18 May 2007 11:01:15 +0000

Leela: Joke about an accent is exactly that - a joke about a funny way of talking. Nobody is making fun of any culture, since I can hardly imagine what connection could an Asian talking bad/funny English possibly have with Asian culture. And people make jokes about all sorts of accents all the time - Russian, Canadian, Indian, you name it. People will always make fun of things that are different from what they’re used to. Don’t tell me Asians never make fun of Americans trying to speak Chinese or Japanese, and doing it badly (with accent).

I’m sorry if it affends you, but that is no basis for a goverment/corporate enforced speech impediment. If we start banning “offensive” (100% subjective term) words, soon we’ll end up with things like music channels having to censor out completely neutral words like “gun” from songs, just because some mother felt it was “dangerous” or “offensive”! …oh, wait. Shit. :(

P.S. I don’t think smoking bans fit into this discussion well, since, unlike words, smoking can (and does) harm those around smoker, they can’t “choose” to ignore the smoke (yes, they can walk away, but one can also run away from a robber, does that mean robbing should be legal?). As far as I understand, the point of the article and most of subsequent debate is about limiting speech by banning single words, which, by definition, cannot be inherently offending without context.

By: jenny984

jenny984 — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:52:34 +0000

Christ someone just fucking shoot me now, they just passed the statewide smoking ban in Maryland

By: Y

Thu, 17 May 2007 19:52:24 +0000

“The station isn’t telling anyone they can’t say something. The station’s saying they’re not going to pay people to say something, and those people can’t use the station’s resources to say it.”

Saying that “they can’t say it here” is censoring them. Do you know what censoring is?

Is this a first amendment issue? No, of course not. But I bought XM because it was uncensored. It’s not. So I cancelled.