In today’s society, music censorship is an issue that plagues not only the music industry, but television, radio stations, department store chains, and the average American. Music censorship is the term used to describe the act of editing, altering, or preventing the listener from hearing the music as the artist created it in order to deny certain information or to act as a moral gatekeeper of potentially harmful material. The argument for music censorship …showed first 75 words of 2102 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2102 total…not carded when they try to download the same material from Napster, Morpheus, or any other web based music program. In retrospect, what is the point of placing stickers on music and selling censored versions if the uncensored version can be gotten for free at home? There is not a point. The government needs to make a choice one way or the other, to censor or not to censor, that will always be the question.