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"Fuck tha police" is from an album which was recently selected for preservation by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or artistically

• imron 9y ago
  Exactly! And that's why it's a good thing that I'm not the arbiter of what can and can't be listened to on the Internet. Who would you give that power to though? And can you be sure that the people you give it to will agree with you on everything that should and shouldn't be allowed? 'Fuck tha police' talks about slaughtering cops, using sniper rifles to take them out, a bloodbath of cops dying and so on. Can you trust that a company that says it will remove all music that incites violence and hatred to allow such a song to be available online? Can you trust that once a company has set a policy of removing things that incite violence and hatred that other people won't come along and petition to have such songs removed on those grounds? I might not like that song but I'm not going to try and ban it, because I accept that it's ok for people to like things I personally find distasteful. If I don't like it, I have the freedom to choose not to listen to it. I am worried though when I hear companies talk about banning things with such large umbrella terms that can be arbitrarily enforced.