... band called The Prodigy released a music video for MTV for a song entitled "Smack My Bitch Up." The video depicted a person taking drugs, getting into fights, and sexually and physically assaulting several women. Needless to say, the video was quickly banned and caused lots of controversy. Heavy Metal/Rap artists such as Limp Biscuit, and Kid Rock, promote moshing (The practice of bashing ... commonly described as necessary and glorious. There is actually an entire genre of rap called "Gangsta Rap" which is notorious for its unmerciful accounts of violence, gratuitous sexual acts, and d...

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... their listners to say, "F*ck the Police," or Eminem, who says he"ll "Kill You," surround children, especially in urban areas. This type of music encourages children to get into drugs and gang violence. In the past eight years, the period in which "gangsta" rap has been heavily promoted, teenage drug use has increased more than four-fold (Dr. C Delores Tucker ... sharing programs like Napster and Imesh, any type of censorship would not only be immoral, it would be next to impossible. "And even if words like "faggot" or "nigger" were banned, it wouldn't stop homophobia or racism in Americ...

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... on music. One type of music that is a big target of censors, if s rock music. Rock music is a huge when it comes to censors because of the allusions to sex, drugs, alcohol, and violence. Since as early as the 1950's music censorship has had a negative effect on rock music. There have been many cases of music censorship, it is nothing new ... album has a young girl about the age of twelve, whose genitals were barely covered. Many people thought that is album cover was child pornography. Because of that the album was banned in American and the band received a lot of criticism from the Ame...

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