I will commence my presentation today by explaining to you what censorship is, I will then continue to the arguments for and against censorship in music, finishing my presentation with a summary of what I have said to you before me today on this controversial issue.
             Censorship as a definition is the editing or altering of something someone has either said, written, or sung or in this case all of the aforementioned things, to make it more "socially acceptable" or "politically correct."
             In the music business this means the deletion of expletives and the monitoring of everything that is played on free to air radio and television,
             Many people say yes, that there should be censorship because lyrics from songs are telling our youth it is acceptable to participate in illegal actions such as murder, rape or drugs. These people believe that the lyrics actually drive people to become social deviants.
             However, others such as my self believe that the censorship of an artists lyric is an insult to their democratic right to freedom of speech. Now there are some of you before me today might ask how this so, and to answer that question I would point you towards the section of our constitution that refers to the freedom of speech, and the freedom of the press, this section is very similar to the first amendment in the American Constitution which states that no law shall be made that prohibits any American citizen from expressing their personal viewpoint on any matter, irrespective to how controversial there comments may be.
             Censoring music is a clear violation of this, in the fact that what the artist has written is his or her own personal view or feelings on a particular issue or topic, and as citizens of a free nation no one can legally silence them from stating their own opinion.
             However this fact alone hasn't managed to convince the politicians and moral leaders of
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