In Belgium he is played on the radio (his music was never banned to begin with) but officially the radio dj’s (of the biggest government funded stations) have the obligation to indicate to listeners something about the controversial nature that Michael was part of.
So they say something like this was billie jean which is a great song despite his wrongdoings. There were some phone calls of distraught listeners when MJ was played as well, in general his airplay dropped. Commercial radio stations don’t care and they still play him with pride.
I have absolutely no idea what difference this makes but this is how it goes here, kind of a buzzkill. Anyway Belgium is swinging out of bounds in this entire woke culture. They make one controversial decision after the other. They’re now banning tv shows left right and center that have scenes in it that don’t fit our current times. For example a scene depicting a gay or black person in a stereotypical way is now deemed offensive.
Apparently it is a group of 20 people deciding what is right for us to watch and what isn’t. I love it how we criticize everything russia or china does but we do exactly the same regarding content on tv. This borders on an early form of dictatorship to me.
PS to the young(er) people here I am very easygoing in nature, I’m not this whiny old fart. I say this before I get attacked for not agreeing with current times.
Based on how I hear radio programmers or tv people talk my take is that MJ is deemed guilty where I live and nobody questions it or dares to question it.