Reclaim The Net reports that New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is asking social media companies to censor rap videos in which artists display and/or glorify guns.
Adams spoke about the issue on Friday, stating that he had only recently become aware of “drill rapping” and pushed for social media companies to step up censorship. “You have a civic and corporate responsibility,” he told them.
He added, “We pulled Trump off Twitter because of what he was spewing. Yet we are allowing music [with] displaying of guns, violence. We allow this to stay on the sites.”
HOT 97 notes that Adams announced a planned discussion with “very top-known rappers” regarding the matter, but he did not indicate when that discussion would take place.