This was 1989. An FBI assistant director sent a letter accusing a certain Compton rap group of encouraging “violence against and disrespect” against law enforcement. The group was, of course, Nwa and the song was its police brutality protest anthem “Fuck tha Police.” The letter generated enormous press coverage, which decried government censorship and helped propel the song to widespread popularity and helped establish its legendary status.
There is, in other words, a long history of government officials and politicians trying to silence things in pop culture they don’t like, only for their efforts to have the exact opposite of their intended effect (the so-called Streisand Effect — though that famous example was a celebrity vs. paparazzi rather than the government).
So its perhaps no surprise that President Trump’s efforts to silence Comedy Central’s South Park,…
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