William Baldwin, Peter Bart, Michael Bay, Stephen Collins, Chuck D, Amitai Etzioni, and Arianna Huffington

About the author: William Baldwin is an actor and the president of the First Amendment advocacy group Creative Coalition; Peter Bart is the editor-in-chief of Variety; Michael Bay is a film director; Stephen Collins is an actor and founding member of the Creative Coalition; Chuck D is a rap artist and Creative Coalition advisory board member; Amitai Etzioni is the director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies; Arianna Huffington is a syndicated columnist.

The movie, television, and video game industries should be more willing to self-censor their products' violent content because the First Amendment should not be used to validate offensive material. While purveyors of popular culture have the right to create what they wish, these industries ought...