Research- Music video regulation and distributrion

Music video regulations are controlled by the same company that regulate films and there minimum age for viewers, this company is called the BBFC, (the British Board of Film Classification). They regulate adult content in media and occasionally ban it from certain media such as when music videos were displayed on the TV in top of the pops, where on occasion the music but not the video usually by being too controversial for the time periods values or in rarer cases of offence or discrimination. Other music video regulations are put into place by the sources of the media in the first place usually in that of YouTube which occasionally bans media. However, this raises an issue as it’s easy to fake your age. This raises issues as the lack of control over media and then hence a surplus of freedom, this means that with the range of music videos there are some that are inappropriate for specific groups of age or that are objectifying or too controversial are easily accessed by anyone. So to combat this the BBFC attempted to regulate YouTube's videos (and music video's) with age rating labels before viewing which was very short lived as people prefer uncensored unregulated media due to the far higher rate of individually who are not offended by much of the material available in comparison to the minority who do usually parents.

 Below is a well-known old controversial music video called "like a prayer" by Madonna that shows how ideas become less controversial over time and the ideas behind it.

 However that in question most music videos banned within the last 30 years or so have been lifted off there "Banned" statues This would include such videos as Madonna's "like a prayer" which featured a black Jesus during a time when there were racial rights but not vary much acceptance let alone for that "blasphemy" insinuates rape by a white gang and the black man is the saviour which some people found unnecessary for viewing. Political injustice is shown as the black man is arrested and shows obvious racism in criminal justice department i.e. the police hastily locking up the black man with no evidence and finally potential male gaze material of Madonna in a black sexualised nightie, this may have been banned and considered as unfit for media as it portraits white's as the villains in the narrative.