Censorship 2.0

There seems to be a new round of censorship happening in the USA and UK. The UK has some nonsense going on with having to opt in to be able to view adult content apparently. Trump has (in the past) made several negative statements about adult entertainment. Now he's sucking up to some of the religious right and vice-versa, which is not a good sign. Plus his statements about wanting to change laws so he could sue the media that prints negative stories about him.

Here in the US however this is what's transpired the last few years:
Wordpress killed all blogs that had sexual content or graphic photos.
Google + kills any profile that has the same.
Google owned Blogger killed blogs that had adult related affiliate links.
Yahoo bought Tumblr and seems to have somewhat disabled the key word search for adult content.
Yahoo did the same years ago with their Yahoo Groups.

Slightly different issue but along the same lines is how VISA and MasterCard charge between $500 and $1000 per year for any website that has "adult content" on it but they ONLY charge this to American based webmasters. This came about during the horribly oppressive Bush years. I guess all other countries told VISA and MC to fuck off as their webmasters are not subjected to the same fee's.

Now Amazon has some bizarre scheme where they are targeting authors that have adult related books, deactivating the purchase icon, sending those books back to "draft" status and providing a link to what their content policy is. 

What I find insane is "Offensive Content: What we deem offensive is probably about what you would expect". According to which person? I mean if we aren't talking bestiality here, nor rape, no underage, no pedophilia, no necrophilia, nothing nonconsensual, what are we referring to and by whose standards? The Pope? Hugh Hefner?

I don't do the tin foil, black helicopter, New World Order paranoid conspiracy theory type thing. At the same time its very odd how so quickly so many companies......that made billions off of adult content.....suddenly all want to censor it.

I recently had one of my books sent back to draft status...meaning cancelled as there is no way to ever figure out what Amazons issue with it is....and they won't tell you. Cuckold Journal: Wet Options: Cuckold Letters II The Married Years is actually one of my "tamer" books so for all I know within the next few days or months all of my books might have been removed from Amazon.....by Amazon.

So, if books are being removed, blogs are being killed, major search engines are setting algorithms to ignore adult content, just wondering how far off we are from book burnings.......a resurgence of the religious right in political power.......with witch burnings soon to follow. :)