When Labels Go Wrong!

A brief history of the label "Parental Advisory Explicit Content". About censorship, the effect of music on people and society and the general context of the American society and politics of the mid 80s and how it relates to our days and the Internet.
The Unhosted Unconference, Unhost, Czech Republic, September 8 2012

Transcript

1. When labels for consumer information go WRONG! Unhost, September 8, 2012 Hugo Roy, hugo@fsfe.org
5. The Washington Wives • Tipper Gore, Al Gore's wife (you know, the guy who invented the Internet) Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC)
6. Prince, him again! Darling Nikki 1984 Purple Rain
7. "I knew a girl named Nikki I guess you could say she was a sex fiend I met her in a hotel lobby Masturbating with a magazine"
8. Censorship?
9. No!
10. “Consumer information” Responsibility of the music industry
11. Recording Industry Association of America
12. Parental advisory or not
20. CD reissue
21. Track 8: “F... you”
22. Track 8: “F... you”
23. Ooops!! We forgot this one. Re-release.
24. The effect of Music on the mind of young people The war on “porn rock” – an older version of the current war on the Internet
25. A few conclusion about ToS;DR Leave governments out of it It is not the “responsibility of the industry” (i.e. self-regulation)
26. “Social Impact of Music Violence” US Senate Committee