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Chinese Officials Praise OiNK Shutdown*

Because a "group of conservative songwriters" have pinpointed the problem among Chinese music fans. It's the Internet that is evil, "poisoning youth with weird lyrics and lustful themes." And they are begging China's young Web users to "resist the incursion of unseemly content, abandon vulgarity." Of course, the Chinese have a far different definition of "vulgar" than the country that produced Too $hort. More »

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Helpful MTV Censors Keep Diddy's Sexploits Out Of Our Faces

MTV is refusing to broadcast a commercial for Diddy's scented water, Unforgivable, a clip that's too sexed up for the channel that brings you chaste daytime programming like the Ja Rule-approved Next. According to XXL, the ad has Puff and a model "getting hot and heavy in a hotel room and stairwell" and "[pulling up her] skirt and putting his hands under her dress. Another shot features a woman holding Gomez's breast and pulling down her underwear." I can now sleep soundly tonight knowing I'm not going to inadverently stumble on Diddy's sticky fingers getting to third base tomorrow morning on Video Wake-Up before I've had my coffee.

MTV Says Diddy's Unforgivable Ad Is Too Racy [XXL]

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Disney Supposedly Bans Heavy Metal, Gives Hip-Hop "Stern Talking To"

Blabbermouth has reposted a shocking report from the official Web page of Florida metal band (and recent Kerrang! Award winner for Best Album) Machine Head claiming that Disney shut down its upcoming show at the Disneyland House of Blues thanks to the band's "violent imagery, undesirable fans and inflammatory lyrics," apparently only one recent example of the Mouse's hostility towards heshers: More »

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Clear Channel Station Slinks Out The Back Door Over Homophobia Flap

A New York hip-hop station, owned by radio monolith Clear Channel, very quickly backed away from a reggae festival it had agreed to sponsor this weekend after the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation pitched a fit after finding out about two of the performers, Buju Banton and Bounty Killer, who have written notoriously homophobic hit singles. But GLAAD may be targeting at least one of these artists for no reason other than a reputation that has preceded him: More »