Yes but counterpoint Pussy Riot is white and Bob Vylan is black.
Let’s be honest, that’s true in every country where the government has real power. The moment you’re an actual threat to those in power, you’ll get shut down.
Right, and that’s why talk of authoritarianism is infantile. The question that’s actually important is whose interest the government represents.
Of course. The moment a government feels threatened, it will show you ‘the violence inherent in the system’.
Which is the desirable outcome if the government represents the working class and exercises violence against attempts at a capitalist counterrevolution.
That’s … Just not true? Ragebait?
welcome to the real world https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/uk/bob-vylan-uk-band-glastonbury-us-visa-intl-latam
That’s unfair to lump all of the western world in with Australia. We ban a wide variety of things because they make us feel bad and not because it actually hurts anyone.
Johnny depps dogs, right wing authors, sports stars that won’t vaccinate, musicians that remind us were racist too, meat, German porn, Chinese fireworks. I think we have put a ban on Russian caviar too. Point is Australia likes to ban.
The uk and Australia doing something hardly makes it true of “the western countries.” Rewording to “some western countries” could make the statement true though.
Did you miss the part where the US also revoked their visas? I didn’t see it in that specific article, but they were also cancelled from German appearances.
just ain’t the case, this is a thing that happens sometimes at monied levels of capitalist event planning in Imperial Anglophone countries, not in day-to-day life for all the Volk
don’t pretend like western governments have this kind of reach and power, it will cause people trapped in their borders to kill themselves
It’s not the case…it just happens sometimes? It doesn’t count when it does happen because it’s capitalism? We have to ignore when it happens because if people realized, they would be too distraught?
I genuinely don’t understand what’s doing on with this comment.
It isn’t the case that stage musicians need to be government approved. It is the case that high-profile acts at high profile shows are being censored. There is a huge difference.
*and thanks for bringing your comment back, it was civil and i was happy to clarify
I think the line between needing corporate approval for your music, and needing government approval for your music is a blurry one, and it is difficult to judge what actually happens from the outside. The people who grant the corporate approval play golf, do drugs, and get hookers with people in government, so the government could have politely asked the capitalists to ban the act. Let’s not undersell the deep alignment between corporate and government power.
counterpoint: Bob Vylan
