China against foreign broadcast music on its territory

The Ministry of culture of China has forbidden to place on the Internet 100 popular songs.

Among the prohibited hits Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Backstreet Boys and Take Thatthat can corrupt state culture." It is reported by Agence France-Presse. As a formal reason for censorship of the Ministry of culture outlined the need to normalize and legitimize" musical content is placed in the Chinese segment of the world wide web.

The list includes, in particular, a few songs from the new album La single lady Gaga's "Born This Way": "The Edge of Glory", "Hair", "Marry the Night" and "Bloody Mary". The reason for the ban of these songs on the Chinese Internet is not called, however, it is most likely that the displeasure of the authorities summoned the chanting in the texts of every kind of freedom - for example, the lyrical heroine of the song "Hair" wants to live and die as free as her hair ("I'll die living just as free as my hair"), and "Bloody Mary" ends with the line "freedom, my love" "Oh, liberdade, mi amor").

Banned were also a number of tracks recorded popular in Asian countries, local artists who publicly dared to speak against the political line of the Chinese authorities.

For example, in a black list got Taiwanese singer A-Mei (A-Mei or Chang Hui-mei)in may 2000 she sang the national anthem of Taiwan at the inauguration of President Chen Shui-bian (Chen Shui-bian).

The Chinese authorities is not the first time use censorship in relation to popular music. In 2006, the British group in The Rolling Stones strongly asked during a concert in Beijing to refrain from singing "Brown Sugar", "Honky Tonk Woman", "Beast of Burden", "Let's Spend the Night Together" and "Rough Justice" because of their "calling" of the content.

Beijing has repeatedly been accused of using political censorship of the Internet. Because of this, the Chinese government in 2010 has damaged relations with Google, who refused to work in this country. The U.S. state Department has accused Beijing in the organization of hacker attacks on mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists and employees of the American ruling structures.

According to the materials of music news Runet.

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