No doubt the platforms are a problem too, but I was referring to the creatives themselves. Just a few examples I can remember.

In 2020 dozens of Hachette employees walked out over the publisher’s decision to publish Woody Allen’s memoir. Hachette cancelled the book.

Tina Fey asked NBC to remove 30 Rock episodes from all distribution.

Bill Lawrence (creator of Scrubs), asked to have episodes removed.

John Ridley (Oscar winning screen writer) asked HBO to remove Gone with the Wind.

Neil Young threatened to leave Spotify if they didn’t remove Joe Rogan.

The 2020 “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign which included Sacha Baron Cohen, Katy Perry, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Judd Apatow, Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan, Mark Ruffalo, Rosario Dawson, and MANY more, demanded platforms and distributors and channels remove content ranging from political ads to discussions of COVID.

I just asked ChatGPT and got about 10,000 examples of famous creatives demanding censorship. It didn’t used to be this way.

> Unless you mean that there is less slurs and jokes against minorities, which is an improvement tbh.

Censorship is bad unless I agree with it. Then it’s good. Stunning levels of thought and reason.