Censorship

"Censorship" "The song [Cop Killer] is fiction, not fact. At no point did I go out and say 'Let's do it.' I am singing in the first person as a character who is fed up with police brutality. I ain't never killed no cop. I felt like it a lot of times. But I never did" -Rapper Ice-T, National Review, July 20, 1992. Statements such as that have started an on going debate about censorship in …

…tapes and the violence that exists out there in the real world, is a major reason to uphold censorship. People can go on and on why music and TV should be censored and why is should not. This is a debate that will go well into the 21st century. But the real question is will the music get more explicit and TV get more and more violent. Only the test of time will find out.