The PM has been considering this, but what do you think?

No.

First introduce better censorships for full-on pornography (which can be found much easier than music videos), then come back with a better arguement.

No, it should be the parents job, not the gov't

 

Parents can easily stop their children from watching inapropriate videos (music or not) on youtube by blocking videos flagged as inappropriate. Age ratings don't need to happen and the PM should be focusing on something more important.

No, it's ridiculous to have a video where Rihanna is simply flashing a bit of leg rated the same as (for example) a horror movie with blood, guts and gore. It's very rare videos ever go that OTT, some of them are overly sexual admittedly but it's nothing that the children won't see by going outside and watching half the girls who strut down the street in skimpy outfits anyway. People just go OTT because public figures do it.

I voted no, too of course - though I must admit having daytime on the music channels filled with little more than Katie Melua, Dido, Delta Goodrem, etc. does have a certain appeal to me. :P

Voted no. Maybe I'd change my mind if I could be convinced of what exactly the negative consequences are. I saw Britney in a diamond suit as a 7 year old and turned out fine.

No.

 

It's completely ridiculous. Sheltering children from certain things probably does more indirect harm than good. Only a few days ago, I was arguing with a friend about the need to ban/censor Rihanna's 'Man Down' video. Why shelter children from pretty tame violence when they'll be exposed to it sooner or later in real life? It "wisens" children up rather than "corrupts" them.

 

EDIT: Btw, I'm not saying shooting someone is tame violence. I'm saying the presentation of it is tame.

Edited April 9, 201213 yr by SceneofSIXCrimes

Sheltering children from certain things probably does more indirect harm than good. Only a few days ago, I was arguing with a friend about the need to ban/censor Rihanna's 'Man Down' video. Why shelter children from pretty tame violence when they'll be exposed to it sooner or later in real life? It "wisens" children up rather than "corrupts" them.

100% correct.

Edited April 9, 201213 yr by Umi

I voted No.

Of course they should. As should TV shows.

Whilst I would like to say no, everything else is given age ratings and censorship so I don't see any good reason why music videos shouldn't have the same treatment applied.

The PM has been considering this

 

Has he now? -_-

 

The government seem to want to control everything. :no:

 

Anyways, these types of videos are usually heavily edited for daytime viewing. For eg; I've seen several reedited versions of 'We Found Love' on the music channels. It manages to filter out the adult content keeping the less offending shots and therefore requires no age rating.

 

If this was the case, I'm surprised the government never thought of this in the days of 'Like A Prayer' and 'Justify My Love' which I'm guessing at the time would've had more of a shock factor to them then the 'We Found Love' (director's cut) video had last year. People have come to expect these types of videos - they're like mini movies rather than music videos.

 

That said, because they're like mini movies I echo RFC's post. I just don't like the idea of the government getting involved on issues like "Should music videos have a age rating?". I'd rather the government sorted out other far more important issues and leave these issues to the parents/broadcasting companies to decide such things.

 

Then again, do parents even care? They probably just let their children watch these director's cuts on YouTube without batting an eyelid.

Has he now? -_-

 

The government seem to want to control everything. :no:

 

Exactly. We need to start a protest Hitstastic! -_-

Nope.

 

Remember, Cameron is trying EVERYTHING to build up his -50 approval rating.

 

This won't happen anyway.

 

 

Surely the government has bigger things to worry about? :manson:

Edited April 9, 201213 yr by ▲▲▲

I do agree that if a video is inappropriate, then there should be a degree of censorship, but that should be up to the broadcasters and parents and shouldn't really be the governments concern, I think they should spend more time looking at our economical state <_<

 

I'm not sure what effect it would have anyway? some 12-15 year-olds still manage to watch 18's, so I'd imagine it would just be the same with music videos

Edited April 9, 201213 yr by C.W

Age ratings would make near enough no difference - a 10 year old seeing a bit of mildly erotic dancing is hardly an issue when the alternative is to go on Call of Duty and murder some soldiers.

Whilst I would like to say no, everything else is given age ratings and censorship so I don't see any good reason why music videos shouldn't have the same treatment applied.

 

I agree. Also, I agree that parental control is a major issue here, but I don't think it's something parents bother too much about.

There is no censorship during the day in Australia, only on public TV channels. The parents are left responsible for what their child watches and doesn't watch and I'm pretty sure 99% of people turn out fine despite that. So I'll vote no