The growing influence of BookTok, BookTube and Bookstagram has a researcher concerned about the content young people are engaging with, and they are calling for an industry-wide book rating classification system.
Fyi this might be a useful resource to quickly review a movie. Despite the name it contains a wide range of content warnings https://www.doesthedogdie.com/
But yeah… classification isn’t censorship yet. Your point about LGBT content is a very good one.
Considering recent attempts to remove a kids book from shelves because it contained two dads (and spurious claims about it being pornographic), it’s kind of looking like conservative and religious groups are looking for any angle they can find to control content they don’t like. And once they’ve had one win, the scope will creep.
Especially combined with recent trends. There is an agenda.
Fyi this might be a useful resource to quickly review a movie. Despite the name it contains a wide range of content warnings https://www.doesthedogdie.com/
But yeah… classification isn’t censorship yet. Your point about LGBT content is a very good one.
Considering recent attempts to remove a kids book from shelves because it contained two dads (and spurious claims about it being pornographic), it’s kind of looking like conservative and religious groups are looking for any angle they can find to control content they don’t like. And once they’ve had one win, the scope will creep.
Especially combined with recent trends. There is an agenda.