Music

             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 new 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 well known group for censorship, but certainly not the only one.
             When the F.C.C. was first introduced its main objective was to regulate what radio stations used what frequency, and during war times making sure that they didn't give or receive confidential information. Now they use their regulation for so called indecent material. The F.C.C. said that
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