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

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

  • EchEnglish
    25•8 months 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•8 months ago

      It’s also similar, though not quite, to the plot of Footloose. In that a town banned dancing, but this seems to be an effort to limit it to traditional folk dances.

    • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
      1•8 months 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.

      • EchEnglish
        1•8 months 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.