Has music censorship ever affected some part of your life. It has affected many people's lives everywhere. Most people believe that music censorship was started during the 1800’s to silence certain peoples believes that were in the form of music. But now it has flourished into something new that many people love and hate. Music censorship isn’t right or wrong. it all just depends on how you feel about the topic.The true definition of censorship is, suppressing unacceptable parts of music, books, or videos. The FCC are the main group in charge of making sure that radio stations are censoring their music when they play it. The FCC has rules that radio stations must follow in order to be able to broadcast their songs, and so they don't get fined. The FCC’s rules and regulations state, inappropriate words in songs must be bleeped out in the radio, they must follow the federal communications commision given in 1934, and if children are in your specified audience, you must censor your “statements” …show more content…
For example, when you run a radio station, you always have to bleep out cuss words for viewer discretion. If you break this law then you will be fined anywhere from 200-2,000 dollars; your radio station can also get suspended. For example, in 1961 the FCC declined to renew the license of WDKD: a radio station in South Carolina. It was fined due to what it calls the "obscene and indecent" radio commentary style of local personality Charlie Walker, whose use of colorful phrases—most notably, "let it all hang out"—offended what the FCC describes as "those of highly developed sensibilities." (Tom Head) This emphasises on the FCC’s rules and regulations on radio station music; and, what will happen if you don't follow their rules; or, if you think they can't do anything to