On this specific subject it's hard to think of parallels and if there were parallels then that was bad anyway. >He said they may be concerned that an "anonymou

On this specific subject it's hard to think of parallels and if there were parallels then that was bad anyway. >He said they may be concerned that an "anonymous lynch mob will turn up online and make their lives a misery". >[...] >The 66-year-old said he was worried that less established authors were self-censoring by avoiding writing from certain viewpoints or including characters outside their immediate experiences. In the past you might have had e.g. Catcher in the Rye or Lolita or whatever banned from libraries, but low-profile authors weren't receiving death threats. The important question isn't whether the critics are fair or what their politics are; the important question is what kind of an impact do they have, and a chilling effect is worth being concerned about.