"Howl"

After reading the article about "Howl" being deemed too obscene to air on a New York radio station, I was shocked.  I do not understand why they would not air it when a court had already ruled that the poem was not too obscene.  I feel that we as a society are becoming soft.  I also feel that we are blind to the fact that by not airing a poem, we are not going to stop all of the sex, poor language, and anger out in the world.  I feel that there was no risk to take, despite what the radio station feared.
The poem is historical literature that deserves to be shared.  Allen Ginsberg does not sugar coat anything, which is why I think people are so afraid of his poem.  He speaks the truth and tells it like it is.  That's why people are scared.  They do not want to hear the truth, and they do not want the public frightened by the real issues in the world that are affecting us.  No, instead the radio station will air something that makes everyone happy and give the false notion that everything is okay.  Everything is fine, and everyone will continue to live in a fantasy.  For the people who do see reality for what it really is, like Ginsberg, their voices will be censored, and to me that's wrong.  What's the point of freedom of speech if we can't even use it?  There isn't.  Ginsberg lost his freedom of speech because he was telling the truth, unfiltered.  And for our society, that apparently isn't acceptable.