subby, "to keep children watching.."? WTF?

F...R...O...M

Really? Raunchy music videos in the early 90s was the only thing a young guy like me at the time had to whack it to. We lived in a really small town pre-internet, and the drugstore didn't even carry Playboy let alone anything that doesn't make women look like plastic Barbie dolls.

It was a lonely time filled with MTV's "The Grind" and that one Chris Issacs video.

Who the fark is watching MTV?

1. What's in "raunchy pop videos" is nothing more graphic than what was in Pan's People's performances in the 1970s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcXHxLg6MAU&feature=fvwrel

2. Music videos are already 18 rated if they contain sexual content. Duran Duran's Girls on Film and Madonna's Justify My Love are both rated 18 by the BBFC. Contrary to the bullshiat from David Cameron, the Video Recordings Act 1984 states that the exemption for music only applies if there is no sexual content (or else, companies selling hardcore would just have some wakka-wakka music playing over porn they could sell anywhere). You'd think that the government would actually know what the law currently is.

3. Music channels aren't subject to BBFC ratings. Ofcom regulate TV and if say, 4Music showed a music video with a nipple, they'd soon find themselves with a fine.

and yeah, an age verification screen will really stop kids. "Are you over 18"? "Yes". Or they'll just go and find some airtight porn clips from a site in the US.

Basically... dog-whistle bullshiat to keep the idiot authoritarians happy.

He's a frickin' CONSERVATIVE.what do you expect?

Conservatives just LOVE money, war, big business and especially CENSORSHIP,
For the children. You know.

Just install NetNanny. Infallible defense against anything objectionable

He accidentally the whole headline.

miss diminutive: AverageAmericanGuy: Who the fark is watching MTV?

MTV plays music videos?

That was my first thought. I was under the impression that MTV only shows Jersey Shore, 16 and Pregnant and that 1 Girl, 5 Gays show.

AverageAmericanGuy: Who the fark is watching MTV?

Wait, is MTV showing videos again?

You should be forced to swipe your legal government issued ID before you can watch any videos where girls dance, gyrate their hips, smile seductively, wink, or show their ankles.

I'll believe it when Rockstar Games goes out of business.

It's a good thing nothing like that ever happens in the US, right? (new window)

Please ban this video

It is causing our childrens to kill.

Sweet. That's like giving kids a heads up on the videos they really want to see. Cuts through all that work of sitting through boobless music.

No middle man anymore? Well done!

So News Corporation bought out the British MTV channel, saw they weren't doing so hot in the ratings and went "we need to drum up some controversy, let's call some of the politicians we own."

Manufactured outrage is the new sales pitch.

Khakimonkey: subby, "to keep children watching.."? WTF?

But of course. How else do the children know which ones to seek out, without those red flag ratings to grab their attention?

Part of the problem is that what is and isn't too sexy for children to see is very arbitrary. Whatever standards they set now will probably be looked at 60 years from now as "They really thought that was too sexy? What prudes!" Just like how we now say mush the same about what was considered too sexy for children to see 60 years ago. No pregnant women shown in TV or movies, no couples shown in bed at the same time even if the characters were married and it wasn't a sexual situation, etc.

Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: Part of the problem is that what is and isn't too sexy for children to see is very arbitrary. Whatever standards they set now will probably be looked at 60 years from now as "They really thought that was too sexy? What prudes!"

They're not too sexy for children. What you see in most videos is nothing more than a woman in a swimsuit or a sexy outfit, perhaps kissing someone. None of this behaviour would result in any police action if it was done in a public place.

It's just a dog-whistle to prudes and people who think the state should act as surrogate parents. Personally, I have no problems stopping my kids watching stuff I don't think they should be seeing.

I'm sick to death of this bullshiat.

Explain to me how I'm supposed to raise my daughter to be a decent, thoughtful human being when these trollops are seemingly the apex of what it means to be feminine.

There is no typo in the headline.

An 18 rating will keep kids watching graphic music videos.

/Don't explain the joke?

This will help me to find videos worth watching.
Thank you

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I'm sick to death of this bullshiat.

Explain to me how I'm supposed to raise my daughter son to be a decent, thoughtful human being when these trollops murderers are seemingly the apex of what it means to be feminine masculine.

It's a lot easier for a 13-year-old to get into a movie with a bloodbath scene than one with an actual bath scene. But if that's all it takes to turn your son/daughter into a psychopath/stripper, there probably wasn't much help for it anyway.

Tachypnea: miss diminutive: AverageAmericanGuy: Who the fark is watching MTV?

MTV plays music videos?

That was my first thought. I was under the impression that MTV only shows Jersey Shore, 16 and Pregnant and that 1 Girl, 5 Gays show.

Even if I didn't like the music(Which I mostly don't), wouldn't it be cool if MTv put the original 'M' back in their name? As it stands, I haven't put my TV on MTv in probably 10 years at least.

TheGreatGazoo: Looks like MTV2 (Where the music's at) plays videos from 3:00 - 6:30 am.

Last time I stopped on one of these music blocks, I also discovered that they weren't playing the whole songs, either, some kind of condensed 2 1/2 minute version, that was it.

/Used to come home from high school just in time for the MTv top 10 for the day.
//Loved it.
//All went downhill by about the 3rd season of The Real World, and VH1 was only a few years behind.