I posted a Topic at a Sirius Satellite Radio Message board that was immediately
deleted. Here is the Topic…
Sirius Radio excludes the Psychedelic Sixties
Sirius Radio Management has made a serious omission in excluding the music
of the millions of Baby-Boomers who cherish and continue to listen to
Pyschedelic Music. By not providing a Psychedelic Staion, music of this genre is
diluted and “crossed-over” into other stations. Programming Directors are excluding thousands of English and North American bands that filled the FM Radio
airwaves during the sixties. Webradio Stations are providing Fantastic
Psychedelic Channels with playlists filled with diverse representation from
private label bands to The Beatles. Millions of British, North American and Global
Psychedelic listeners are being ignored by Sirius Satellite Radio. This generation
of wealthy music lovers will ultimatelty, “Plug & Pay” whomever provides
Psychedelic Music.
Censorship is alive and well and now in Outer Space it seems.
A friend who has Sirius was telling me about a story on gay penguins that she heard on Sirius’s gay and lesbian channel. Doesn’t seem that they’re all that narrow-minded or censorious (sp?).
This is the second rant here against Siriius by the same poster. It’s possible that the OP has been pestering them over there and they’ve simply decided to put him/her on ignore.
Just because they have a Gay and Lesbian channel, doesn’t mean that they’re not intentionally censoring other types of music. More information is needed to make judgement though.
Once again, censorship is when the government decides what can be published and what cannot.
When Wal-mart decides not to stock Cosmo, or Sirius deletes certain topics, that is not censorship. Sirius doesn’t have to have a message board at all, you know.
So then I can’t decide to censor my words? Is there a legal definition of censor that is distinctly different from this:
or this:
Nothing about requisite government involvement. Granted, these two sources are not the standard by which all others are judged, but I know of no free online legal dictionary:)
I agree with Impunha, Ivylass. It’s censorship, just not impermissible censorship. The OP, to his credit, did not make an appeal to the First Amendment or claim that Sirius may not censor his topic – he only expressed his presumed anger and frustration that they did.
And they have every right to. Censorship, to me, is a hot button word, iampuhna’s definition notwithstanding. I was going by the Constitutional definition, not the literal one. To me, if SDMB wants to wipe off every thread on this board discussing, say The Princess Bride, and ban its discussion for the future, that is not censorship. It would be most distressing, but the Reader has the right to decided what is and is not discussed on its boards, just like Sirius.
Now, if the Illinois state legislature passed a law banning discussion of The Princess Bride on SDMB, that is censorship, and I would howl along with the rest of you.
Be mad all you want, Mr. Roboto, but it’s their board and their rules. You are free to start your own discussion board on why Sirius doesn’t allow psychadelic 60s music.
I too agree with, iampunha. Sirius has every right censor what it transmits through it’s services. My only point was that it is sad that they do it. If they’re knowingly doing so.
I think we’re trying to split a hair here. Sirius has a right to “censor” its message boards. The government does not have a right to tell Sirius what topics can and cannot be discussed.
So, when the gov’t does it, it’s censorship. When Sirius does it, it’s something else.
For all of me I don’t see a qualitative difference, but perhaps a more apt word for what you’re talking about re: Sirius’ activities is monitoring (or the ever-PC “quality control”). What is and/or is not censorship is probably best saved for somewhere goat felching doesn’t usually show up;)
To me, no. Because SDMB has a right to delete whatever threads it wants to. Call it moderating the boards or starving the trolls, but to me, it’s not censorship.
I guess it’s because SDMB has a right to “censor,” whereas the gov’t does not. So I prefer to call what the gov’t is not allowed to do censorship. Censorship is a word that gets thrown around a lot, by people screaming that they have a “right” to buy Playboy at Wal-mart, and because Wal-mart doesn’t stock it, that’s censorship. But it’s not, at least in a Constitutional sense, because Wal-mart as a private entity can decide what it does and does not sell.
I think we’re disagreeing over the literal vs. Constitutional meaning of the word. So I shall call what Sirius does (c)ensorship, and if the FCC came in and made them delete all the psychadelic threads, that’s Censorship.
