What is corporate censorship?
Corporate censorship occurs when any major corporation, whose business decisions have broad reaching effects into how an industry functions, and that controls a significant percentage of the share of the market, makes the choice to implement restrictions on what product manufacturers can produce to gain access to the free market system or what customers can purchase, watch, read, say, or listen to in conjunction with their relationship with that business, with an intent of silencing the opinions of those which the corporation deems objectionable in some way. As it applies to the music industry, for example, when a mega-corporation like Wal-Mart (where reportedly as much as 10% of the nation’s album sales are being made) decides to restrict sales to that which is deemed “safe” by someone within that company, it has the same kind of chilling effect on the music community as a full on governmental legislative attack would. It basically works as a corporate mechanism to keep the music indu
