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Canadian radio won't play the 1980s Dire Straits song Money For Nothing as it contains the word "faggot". Progress or preposterous?

Some Dire Straits fans are up in arms, but others regard the word as unacceptable for public broadcast in 2011. Where do you stand?

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15:28 on January 19 2011

Canadian radio won't play the 1980s Dire Straits song Money For Nothing as it contains the word "faggot". Progress or preposterous?

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