Ever since music was played on the radio there has been people trying to take away your right to enjoy it. From the Beatles song "Lucy in the sky with Diamonds," to Eminem people always seem to find something wrong with the lyrics. Songs have always been banned for short whiles on the radio, but in the early eighties a non-profit organization was started that had a terrible effect on music. This has effected the sale of music as well as the clarity. The Parents' Music Resource Commissariat or P.M.R.C. has gained government funds to use in their fights, lies, and used to bribe their way into censoring music. Another group that is ruining songs is the federal Communications Commission, the F.C.C. has been around since the 1930's and has been hurting music ever since. In my research I found list after list of insane events blamed purely on bands or a bands influence. Censorship has become ridiculous, these associations have already pressed it to an extreme and it hasn't helped.
The P.M.R.C. has forced large retail chains such as Wal-Mart to stop carrying music they find offensive. In the eighties parents such as Tipper Gore started this absurd group because they were repulsed and disgusted by this ne
Who has the right to say which music is obscene and which is not. The P.M.R.C. obviously thinks they have this privilege, they base their assumptions on the fact that whenever you see a kid in serious trouble it's because he listens to indecent music. Another problem with the P.M.R.C.'s assumptions is that they think only some offensive types of music nbeed to be censored. If you are to censor music that means you censor every offensive thing in music. If you made a list of songs containing any unsound ideas your list would never end. The Beatles wrote many songs about drug abuse, half of all the song in the seventies were about drugs, and think about all the country songs that talk about depression, alcohol abuse, and have sexual content in them. It's only fair that if you're going to ban White Zombies "Devil Man" you ban Garth Brooks' "Friends in Low Places."
w music known as "rap." They demanded that performers such as N.W.A. and Ice T be banned from the radio, and that they be labeled indecent and explicit. The reasoning was that they wanted to protect children from hearing this filth and thought it would cause them to become violent and anti-social. The P.M.R.C. is the biggest and most wel
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