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Censorship And 1st Ammendment Rights

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CENSORSHIP AND 1st AMENDMENT RIGHTS

“Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech or of the press…” So why is censorship such a big deal? Maybe because the time this was written you didn’t have to worry about people expressing their thoughts with words like shit, fuck, or fag. What if those words are just your way of getting the point across? For example, which is more effective on getting people to be quiet and listen, someone yelling “be quiet!” or someone yelling “shut the fuck up!!!” Of course the latter is going to get people’s attention.
One of the most controversial publicly expressed people would have to be Eminem. Most of his lyrics do have cuss words in them, but isn’t that freedom of speech? He’s not going out in public and yelling these things on the streets, if you don’t want to hear him, don’t listen to him. You don’t have to buy his CD’s and you don’t have to go to his concerts. Many of his songs do have a meaning to them. Like the song “Cleaning Out My Closet” expresses why he feels such strong dislike towards his mother. To some people they might listen to his music and relate. But because of some people personally not liking his music, message or not, they don’t want his music heard. He writes for people to hear what he has to say. In this line from the song “My Dads Gone Crazy”
“I’d rather… have pussy lips glued to my face with a clit ring in my nose then quit bringing my flows, so quit giving me my ammo,
Can’t you see why I’m so mean? If y’all would leave me alone this wouldn’t be my M.O.
I wouldn’t have to go ‘eenie, meenie, meinie, mo, catch a homo by his toe’”
he gives a reason why he says what he says. He feeds off of the media and the public saying what they do about him. He likes to rap and society won’t let him say what he wants, so he says twice as appalling lyrics. This whole song if you listen to ...

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