Wal-Mart can be associated with Censorship as far as music is concerned because it goes against the morals of a democratic society. It is basically undemocratic because it limits freedom of expression/speech and allows to dictate what the many may or may not listen to. For example, removing a controversial Album from circulation in Wal-Mart, for whatever reason, cuts its Interpreter off from a huge amount of fans who have no other way to access the CD. At the same time, Wal-Mart who decide to pull the CD's off the shelf is, in effect, are advising the parents that their children may not listen to this CD. They tell the record industry what they don't like, and the industry manufactures "special clean" versions for sale by Wal-Mart versions which are then resold to other wholesalers. These actions, therefore, are more in keeping with a "dictatorship" than a democracy and can be described as pure censorship.
Wal-Mart's Music Censorship should be eliminated because as free citizens WE should be able to choose what we can or cannot do
Many record companies produce "not dirty" CDs and CD covers specifically for the repressively "clean" Wal-Mart market which, with its monopolistic tendencies, is the only music resource for many in rural US and is therefore censoring the Music industry to the fullest. And last but not least censorship of the arts has been overcome in the past. In recent years, the same type of people who encourage music censorship took up the issue of obscene art. Various painters and sculptors were in effect, attacked because particular types of art were seen as pornographic. Nonetheless, this issue has been accepted for the most part because it was reckoned that the art in questioned was no different from other art previously exploited. Art dig out from cites all over ancient Europe and the world are much like the work done by the artists involved in this conflict; therefore, the censorship of present art was acknowledged needless. This reasoning should be used to music censorship. The music!
So finally, I would like to say that Wal-Mart isn't our daddy, but the
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