I think a big part of this is that the definition of "say" has changed dramatically in the past decade. Today, people interpret that to mean, in part at least,

I think a big part of this is that the definition of "say" has changed dramatically in the past decade. Today, people interpret that to mean, in part at least, "broadcast on the Internet where I have no control over the audience and where it will be recorded digitally and available indefinitely". 10-20 years ago "saying" just meant verbalizing something around a handful of people you could see. You'd know who you were talking to, and if you said something dumb, human memory and time would soften its edges eventually. Ask people in the 1990s if they would self-censor themselves when appearing on TV and they'd probably say yes at the same rate that people say they self-censor when "talking" today, in large part because computers are such a large medium of communication now.