The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26790   Message #325218
Posted By: Whistle Stop
23-Oct-00 - 09:02 AM
Thread Name: PMRC
Subject: RE: PMRC
Well, some of us good, liberal, folk-music-playing Mudcatters happen to think Tipper Gore and the PMRC had a point in raising concerns about some of the crap that is being marketed directly to kids. They didn't advocate censorship (although I am not entirely opposed to it), and they didn't claim that warning labels were necessarily the best answer to this problem. But they highlighted the fact that there's some pretty awful stuff out there -- music that explicitly advocates abuse of women, cop killing, and various other forms of "freedom" -- and at least tried to see if something could be done to counter it. There may not be a lot of people on this forum that agree with me, but I applaud them for a certain amount of political courage and plain good sense.