Am I crazy, or is society getting more "thought police" than before?
If you post something legal that someone doesn't like there, they cause so much trouble for LC that thousands of us have to go through a Lewd Coin system to earn access.
Patreon doesn't like anything non-vanilla. Even incest. Apparently Game of Thrones would get demonetized if it was on Patreon...
Credit card companies will cut off anything that might give someone the ick.
Is this where we're headed?
If you dare to like something anyone else finds gross, you'll get cancelled at best, arrested at worst? Even if no one is harmed by it?
Isn't that why gay people used to be persecuted? Because the people in power thought it was icky, and not for any logical reason? Have we learned nothing, that "ick" is not a justifiable reason to look down on someone?
Where do you think this is going? Is it going to get better or worse?
It's society in general. You can only have certain opinions or you're met with a label. Look at what Disney is doing anytime their shows fail. It's always straight white men's fault.
Incest is a tricky one because in some cultures marriage to family members is still actively encouraged, but Patreon is based out of San Francisco so whilst California is highly liberal they adhere to more American sensibilities in their policies, but it can partially be viewed as a business decision. If you allow certain content if can damage your company's reputation which can affect advertisement revenues. If you advertisers pull out because they don't want to appear next to certain content that's taking away your bottom line.
The majority of the Banking is done by 3 or 4 companies and they're basically ran by the same backers, debanking is a serious problem, but it happens more if you're a large scale public figure with opinions the company doesn't like. (aka conservative political views) Most no name civilians typcially don't have to worry too much about being debanked.
In the US there is a catch 22 obscenity laws which basically gives them a legal loop hole to arrest somebody. It's typically not used if that's the
only thing they're guilty of, but it exists to basically buy time to investigate somebody suspected of wrongdoing for more serious charges. You won't automatically get arrested for having something that others deem obscene, but the worst case scenario isn't arrest it's getting sent to prison and being murdered for it in jail if they suspect you of favoring real life young ones instead of just digital representations because of your selections of digital media then your not exactly safe, those type of folks don't typically last long in jail.
Homosexuality being persecuted has a longer history than just the "ick" factor, it was religious zealotry that turned it out to be an evil and people were burned at the stake for it.
As for looking down on somebody, people have every right to judge somebody for their choices. If you get a face tattoo that's a choice you made and people will judge you for it. If you have more hooks in you than a tackle box, that's a choice you made and people will judge you for it. You'd judge somebody if they didn't shower for week's on end and smelled like a gym locker room. You have every right to judge somebody and decide that's not somebody you want to be around for whatever reason and when an individual makes a choice they should expect to be judged for that choice for better or worse, it's called consequences of your own actions. If I jump out of a plane without a parachute that's a choice, the result will be a nice relaxing fall with a sudden stop at the end that I wouldn't be walking away from, but it'd be a choice I made and the resulting consequences are something I'd have to deal with or rather not deal with on account of not being alive any longer. The notion that nobody should be held accountable for their actions is much worse because that's when you get individuals that don't take responsibility for any of their life choices which leads to entitlement and the downfall of a society where you have people melting down on TikTok usually to minimum wage employees.
