Blunkett dictates popular culture, assaults freedom of speech

[Graag]

He [Blunkett] said those who made music [the companies] which glamorised gun violence would be made aware of "what is and isn't acceptable".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2632343.stm

I think Blunkett is a mad baboon. Now he's telling people what they can and can't say. And there was me thinking we lived in a country that at least had the illusion of freedom.

[Buck Birdseed]

What I especially got upset about was him calling occasional geniuses "idiots".

[JohnT]

Sometimes people need to recognize posturing for what it is...

[Graag]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
What I especially got upset about was him calling occasional geniuses "idiots".

The guy is entitled to his opinion, no matter how stupid, but it makes me very uneasy when home secretaries talk about telling people what is "unacceptable" to say.

[Graag]

Originally posted by JohnT
Sometimes people need to recognize posturing for what it is...

Agreed it is posturing, he has no intention of actually censoring speech, but those are, IMHO, dangerous words.

[Provost Harrison]

We all know that Blunkett is a little authoritarian, he is strongly in favour of identity cards, telling you what naughty words you can and can't listen to and he wants to control your mind with special chemicals (well alright, I made that bit up, but it could be true ). We all know when Blunkett plays SMAC what social engineering decision he makes after discovering 'The Will To Power'

[Buck Birdseed]

Yeah, but you expect them to be moralists, not ****ing critics. Let them go through the motions of moral panic, they always do and it results in nothing, but don't have them go around dissin' Rap Music while in their official role, y'hear?

I thought Keith Jowells was being inappropriate already when talking about Conceptual Art.

[Az]

oh no, ID cards!!!!

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

What's the problem? He's just stated an opinion and said that rappers glamourising gun culture might get mildly scolded.

[Buck Birdseed]

Government officials shouldn't dictate what's good music and what isn't. I could care less about the gun lyric moral panic, just keep the hands of my bands while in an official role, man.

[Az]

he didn't dictate anything.

[Sandman]

David Blunkett has never been one to jump on bandwagons...

[Provost Harrison]

He pours petrol on bandwagons and sets fire to them, laughing in a maniacal manner

[lightblue]

Yeah he is led by the Daily Mail and the Sun editorials, which as a Labour minister has always struck me as slightly bizarre.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

He is like Bodds