Madam Butterfly , and most Top 40 and country music with their lyrics of depression, alcohol abuse, explicit sexual lyrics, and adolescent revolution. So now the FCC is hypocritical and redundant and vague, and the PMRC makes assumptions that they cannot reinforce. But here are my views on why music should not be censored. The most explicit reason is that it violates our First Amendment rights. The First Amendment is basically the foundation of our country.
Censorship also brings about conformity.
This is never good. Censorship brings about close-mindedness and prejudice as well. Before the Renaissance period, they hanged people for saying that the earth was not the center of the universe. Granted, comparing music censorship to Galileo is an exaggeration, but not by much. The FCC budget plan has tripled in the past ten years.