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Sarah Jones and FCC
" I think they should have the right to censor anybody, but my song didn't have any of the seven "dirty words" that you're not allowed to say on American radio." American hip-hop poet and performance artist Sarah Jones on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling her song, Your Revolution "indecent".
Interview from BBC;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3376983.stm
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