Bestselling author Donna Leon sees a new era of censorship coming. "We now live in a world in which you are not allowed to write anything that offends, surprises, hurts, disturbs readers or touches sensitivities in any other way" Leon compared the practice of cleansing classics such as Pippi Longstocking of racist terms with the historical distortion of communism.
In her opinion, this would edit the past "in the name of values and morality." Just like the communists did in Russia," she said.