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

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    6 months ago

    80 to 116 BPM. I actually chuckled audibly that the BPM was specified, I assumed it would be extremely vague.

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    6 months ago

    Not even Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Soviet Union had this arbitrary and stupid of a music ban.

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    6 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.

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      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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    6 months ago

    This is memeable, yes; but usually when news like this starts coming out a nation shit’s definitely gone sideways for it.

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      Eastern Europe is going though it right now. One of my old Polish colleagues fled to the UK becuase the Church is slowly taking over and becoming totalitarian. Even if you have a miscarriage you’d be investigated to see if “it was done on purpose” or not.

      (From what I remember, this was just at the tail end of covid)

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      6 months ago

      It just feels like a conservative one party government trying to fill in time before the next election with busy work.

      Nothing pleases social conservatives more than cracking down on that weird music their kids listen to.