Some retailers refuse to carry CDs with "Parental Advisory Stickers", a few also go as far as to make it known to labels and artists that if the CD comes to their shelves with a "dirty" word, a "controversial" cover, or an "explicit" lyric it will not be allowed on the shelves. ... You also may remember when hard-core rapper Ice-T wrote the song cop killer. ... I always tell them that if you want to keep listening to the music that you enjoy, starting today you have to learn to fight back. If you don't fight for your own freedom, no one is going to give it to you." ... There will always ...

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So can you really say what you want to say under protection of your First Amendment rights? That all depends on where you say it, and how you say it. ... When the novelist Barbara Kingsolver says "the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the constitution through a paper shredder" the statement is safeguarded. ... So can you say libel against a person? ...

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