His gambit is obvious, of course....  If he can create a great deal of public furor over the more undesirable aspects of popular culture, he can distract the citizenry to the point at which they will become so involved in debating freedom to blast out sound and massacre lyric verse, that they will ignore the duller and more wearisome aspects the actions of the Assembly.

... You see, my boy, everyone really approves of censorship, underneath it all - as long as it's our enemies who are being censored.  We all want to keep our opponents from saying things we don't like.  Our opinions, however, should be free from the slightest vestige of censorship.  But the only way to protect our own right to free speech is to protect everybody else's, and the people in power always forget that.  So once they've gained office, they begin to try to silence the opposition and if they're in the government, they may actually be able to do it.  So there is constant pressure to limit open discussion, and it always comes in by decrying the immorality of the opposition's statements.