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+That's a hard call.  I've written three versions of an answer to this, flip-flopping on yes/no each time.
-That's a hard call.  I've written three versions of an answer to this, flip-flopping on yes/no each time.  After considerable thought, though, I'm of the opinion that individual works don't really apply to this trope.  That's because they're basically products, and their publishers are sellers who don't rely on advertising revenue embedded in the work to make their money.  They may be vulnerable to consumer pressure, but that usually affects a single work, and that's still not the same thing as being extorted into self-censorship by a single point of contact which controls their revenue flow.  Even periodicals deal with multiple advertisers and agencies (plus they get their cover prices), so there's no one single "point of extortion" that can affect them.  New Media entities appear to be unique in this manner, usually relying on a single service/server to feed them ads and pay them for their display, which when combined with how few reputable online ad agencies there are (ie, those that don't spew scams and malware as a matter of course), leaves them uniquely vulnerable to this kind of extortion.
+After considerable thought, though, I'm of the opinion that individual works don't really apply to this trope.  That's because they're basically products, and their publishers are sellers who don't rely on advertising revenue embedded in the work to make their money.  They may be vulnerable to consumer pressure, but that usually affects a single work, and that's still not the same thing as being extorted into self-censorship by a single point of contact which controls their revenue flow.  Even periodicals deal with multiple advertisers and agencies (plus they get their cover prices), so there's no one single "point of extortion" that can impose unilateral restrictions on them.  New Media entities appear to be unique in this manner, usually relying on a single service/server to feed them ads and pay them for their display, which when combined with how few reputable online ad agencies there are (ie, those that don't spew scams and malware as a matter of course), leaves them uniquely vulnerable to this kind of extortion.