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Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute

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Re: Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute

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This seems trivially easy to circumvent. For example, take your 3/4 song that's 160 bpm and call it a 6/8 song that's 80 bpm. Done.

Playing “rules lawyer” with people who routinely respond to challenges with “summary execution” tends to end badly.

"Law is code" strikes again! It's not even playing "rules lawyer"; it's pretending that computers, not humans, interpret the law.

Re: Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s because the news is bullshit. It’s apparently not a ban for all music, it’s a recommendation for _Chechen_ music from their ministry of culture.

Have you got a source for that interpretation? The announcement this article references does not support it.

This seemed so obviously fake that I went and checked the primary sources: https://tass-ru.translate.goog/obschestvo/20533041/amp?_x_tr...

Re: Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Playing “rules lawyer” with people who routinely respond to challenges with “summary execution” tends to end badly.

"Law is code" strikes again! It's not even playing "rules lawyer"; it's pretending that computers, not humans, interpret the law.

A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.

For those that aren’t familiar with courts, people who make an effort to piss off the judge are setting themselves up for a bad time.

Re: Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute

#35

Sounds so outlandish, but then this comes to mind how the UK tried to ban raves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_and_Public_... > Sections 63, 64 & 65 of the Act targeted electronic dance music played at raves. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act empowered police to stop a rave in the open air when "ten or more people are attending, or where two or more are making preparations for a rave". Sect…

Amateurs, ‘Merica fixed this problem two decades back: https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/263...

They just can't help them selves with the backronyms can they?! Politicians and the US military must spend a significant proportion of their time coming up with clever names.

Re: Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute

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Sounds so outlandish, but then this comes to mind how the UK tried to ban raves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_and_Public_... > Sections 63, 64 & 65 of the Act targeted electronic dance music played at raves. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act empowered police to stop a rave in the open air when "ten or more people are attending, or where two or more are making preparations for a rave". Sect…

Huh.

Suddenly all those Footloose ads on YTV seem a lot less silly.

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Re: Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute

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post #19

Sounds so outlandish, but then this comes to mind how the UK tried to ban raves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_and_Public_... > Sections 63, 64 & 65 of the Act targeted electronic dance music played at raves. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act empowered police to stop a rave in the open air when "ten or more people are attending, or where two or more are making preparations for a rave". Sect…

That's also incredibly dumb, but at least they attempted to criminalize the actual activity they found objectionable. That's at least a rational way to write the law. This BPM law is a complete joke, though, through and through. It won't actually accomplish what they (supposedly) want, and will just cause trouble for people. And to be completely fair, my own country is/was dumb too: in the 1920s many places in the US…

New York City had laws on the books until 2017 banning dancing in bars that don't have a "caberet license." I remember going out to bars and seeing signs on the wall that said "No dancing." We thought it was a joke until they came up to us and told us to stop dancing. Places could get hefty fines. It took a big activist push to get the law repealed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Cabaret_Law

Re: Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute

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Sounds so outlandish, but then this comes to mind how the UK tried to ban raves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_and_Public_... > Sections 63, 64 & 65 of the Act targeted electronic dance music played at raves. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act empowered police to stop a rave in the open air when "ten or more people are attending, or where two or more are making preparations for a rave". Sect…

Amateurs, ‘Merica fixed this problem two decades back: https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/263...

Sponsor was Biden? Interesting.

Re: Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute

#39

Sounds so outlandish, but then this comes to mind how the UK tried to ban raves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_and_Public_... > Sections 63, 64 & 65 of the Act targeted electronic dance music played at raves. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act empowered police to stop a rave in the open air when "ten or more people are attending, or where two or more are making preparations for a rave". Sect…

And of course, the crucial legal definition of a rave as a place where the music consists of "sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats."

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