key, and other local
record stores are also forced to label music that the PMRC and other censorship groups find
obscene (A Brief...). Who is to say that what is obscene to someone might not be seen as
obscene to another person? This question, as well as many others, brought forth many anti-
censorship organizations who fight to give the people of America the right to listen to whatever
music they want to, indecent or not. The First Amendment, from anyone who tries to censor it
protects music, like any other form of expression in the U.S. It is a violation of our constitutional
rights for groups like the PMRC to censor music, but alas, they are allowed to tell us what they
think is decent music and what is not. "The use of parental advisory labels, as with any system
that aim to deny an individual the right to receive a form of communication, most certainly is a
Censorship should be left up to the public because it is our freedom to decide to use
our better judgment in deciding what we want to listen to, regardless of other's opinions.
The Parents Music Resource Center and other censorship groups became a thorn in the side of
free speech when many parents (like Tipper Gore) were outraged and disgusted by this new
music known as "rap." Censorship organizations demand that these new performers like Ice-T
and NWA become banned from the radio and their music be labeled as indecent and explicit in
order to protect America's Youth from listening to this so-called "filth." Rap has since been the
biggest target for censorship, with groups going as far as saying that, "there has been a marked
increase in explicit violence and misogyny in popular music, and it stands to reason that
exposure to such hate filled lyrics has had a effect on kids' attitudes, assumptions, decisions,
and behavior" (Senate subcommittee...). This is a crazy assumpt...