The U.S. in particular has taken huge steps backward. The Sci-Fi Channel here routinely bleeps words from their rebroadcasts of shows that originally aired on network television years ago.
Not only that, but the fear of huge government fines caused the cancellation of a 50th anniversary reading of Allen Ginsberg's Howl--which was found to be not obscene in a court challenge--by a US radio station.
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Date: 2007-10-17 05:08 pm (UTC)Not only that, but the fear of huge government fines caused the cancellation of a 50th anniversary reading of Allen Ginsberg's Howl--which was found to be not obscene in a court challenge--by a US radio station.