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Jello Biafra on 21st century censorship
When Jello Biafra brought the Dead Kennedys to Washington D.C. in 1982, The Washington Post referred to his path-finding California punk troupe as "the D.K.s." Twenty-eight years later, Biafra brings his new band, the Guantanamo School of Medicine, to the Black Cat for a Tuesday night performance.
Click Track spoke with Biafra about censorship in 21st century America.
If people like Comcast and AT&T had their way, they would have an iron grip on the Internet and not only be able to charge more money, but pick and choose what went over what they seem to think is their information highway. I'm a big booster of Internet neutrality and that will always be under threat as long as we have coin-operated lawmakers.
I mean, censorship via the private sector is probably more widespread and more damaging than the latest whining by Tipper Gore or Joe Lieberman blaming all high-school shootings on Marilyn Manson or irrational stuff like that.
I flipped through a little bit of the soundbites of corporate McNews today, and at least Tiger Woods's [anatomy] is off the front burner for a day or two. But now we've got what, a Moscow subway bombing, and oooh, somebody's playing basketball today. Wow. Cool.