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> Clearchannel, which controlled most FM channels, infamously stopped playing John Lennon's "Imagine" after Sep 11 2001

This snopes article provides some background about what happened there:

So songs weren't banned, they were deemed inappropriate to play.

Another example of Snopes proudly declaring FALSE when PARTIALLY TRUE would be more appropriate.

Ah the modern Web, where even the 'fact-checkers' play the spin game.

"Radio personnel were still free to make their own programming decisions, and the list was merely intended as helpful advisory information."

How does that make a "ban" partially true?