Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.

  • Ech@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Was trying to figure out why this felt so familiar, then I remembered it’s literally a plot point in the game Beholder 3, a game about an excessively oppressive surveillance government. Wild.

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      1 year ago

      More than just that one game has this plot point, I’m sure. During the early 90s, when Joe Leiberman and Tipper Gore made “Violence in Music/Movies/Games” their cause celeb, we got a glut of artists producing dystopian prophecies of hyper censorship.

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        1 year ago

        I’m saying the game has the exact plot of the government banning certain tempos of music, not just censorship in general, though that is also in it.