It seems like you shouldn’t worry about songs that are getting a good reception potentially offending someone. Bad songs will bomb. Good songs will stick around.
Censors are canny. They figured out a long time ago that “Don’t you dare free speech in that way because I order you not to!” wasn’t a winner. So we moved onto “Don’t you dare free speech in that way because it harms me in an unverifiable way”, and then to “Don’t you dare free speech in that way because it may at some point potentially harm someone, possibly”.
Counterspell is if they really cared about speech hurting people they wouldn’t be telling you not to sing, since after all that is speech and might potentially hurt you or someone else at some future date in some unspecified way. They are fine with that (and other songs that they aren’t objecting to), because they don’t actually believe that songs/speech hurt people. They just don’t like the song, and are using a ruse to try to get you to fall in line by hijacking your “don’t hurt people” belief.
It seems like you shouldn’t worry about songs that are getting a good reception potentially offending someone. Bad songs will bomb. Good songs will stick around.
Censors are canny. They figured out a long time ago that “Don’t you dare free speech in that way because I order you not to!” wasn’t a winner. So we moved onto “Don’t you dare free speech in that way because it harms me in an unverifiable way”, and then to “Don’t you dare free speech in that way because it may at some point potentially harm someone, possibly”.
Counterspell is if they really cared about speech hurting people they wouldn’t be telling you not to sing, since after all that is speech and might potentially hurt you or someone else at some future date in some unspecified way. They are fine with that (and other songs that they aren’t objecting to), because they don’t actually believe that songs/speech hurt people. They just don’t like the song, and are using a ruse to try to get you to fall in line by hijacking your “don’t hurt people” belief.