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Your government. Where I'm from, the police are using extra judicial coercion to shut down concerts by threatening venue owners with liquor licensing audits, b

• ubercow13 7y ago
  Funny because the article mentions the coercion of NWA in the US as precedent. >There's a long history of police butting heads with hip hop artists, according to Dr Rebecca Sheehan, who researches the link between social identity and music at Macquarie University. >"The FBI issued a cease and desist order to NWA," she said. "When they refused to stop releasing their music, stop distributing it and refused to stop playing concerts, local metropolitan police around the United States get the idea to start shutting concerts down for them."