One would normally assume things are more permissive now regarding what is considered obscene than was the case fifty years ago, but there is an example in the USA at the moment to show that is not always the case. Fifty years ago, a landmark court case in the USA found that Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” was not obscene, as it had “redeeming social importance” and literary and social merit. However, as the New York Times bemoans in an editorial, a local radio station is now unwilling to broadcast a reading of the poem for fear of being fined huge amounts for obscenity by the Federal Communication Commission.
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