Offensive Content Quotes



This is one of the earliest concerns expressed regarding music with degrading lyrics.


In September of 2005 a Danish Newspaper published some political cartoons showing the hypocrisy of some Muslims who use Islam to justify murder of innocents and terrorism. Months later, many in the Middle East protested vehemently and Muslim riots broke out because the Prophet Muhammad's visage was depicted against Islamic tradition. Many Muslim leaders claimed that insulting religion was an “abuse” of freedom of speech including those from nations which regularly publish material that is virulent against Christians and Jews.


The increasing popularity if inexpensive paperback books resuting from new technology and publishing styles stimulated this concern. In this case, not only books censored for indecent content, but books were censored if their covers even suggested that the contained indecent content. And of course there was no definition of “indecency”. The result was a massive censorship of books in Ireland.