&gt; But in terms of censorship and moral guardian attitudes, I&#x27;d say America is clearly going right.<p>Not really. Seriously, not at all. It&#x27;s just that whenever a group is attacked by another group for something they&#x27;ve said or done, they tend to accuse the other of censorship. It&#x27;s a frequently misused term.<p>The most striking recent example I can think of is when a fairly large number of people boycotted Chic-fil-A because the company&#x27;s ownership was using its money to lobby for far-right social causes. People on the right accused the left of censorship, purely because they don&#x27;t understand the meaning of the word but they understand that it&#x27;s a nasty accusation.<p>If you look at actual instances of censorship, it&#x27;s really going down. It is a little amazing what you can print and what you can say, compared to a few decades ago. Small towns occasionally do book bans, and the FCC occasionally scolds someone for something they say on-air, but if you look at the content of what&#x27;s published and put on the air, things are trending closer and closer to anything goes.