Honestly the reason we are getting more and more censorious is because everything is open to everyone and everything is seen by everyone else now. Social media is a curse where everyone has to be in everyone else's business. Fighting game competitions used to be seen by a few hundred people and it was all people of a similar mindset, now if anyone does anything at all that anyone can get upset about it the world gotta know!
You know what used to happen if some dude shouted DAMN GIRL U THICC about Chun Li in a video game competition when he won or there was mass smack talk? everyone laughed and that was it. Now it's an outrage and someone gotta get fired or removed from the competition and the company, advertisers and the person that owns the building it was run have to all answer for what he said!
You can't have a game community calling each other "bad things" on CSGO (that they all think is funny in their community), or a game with an exposed boob in it in the cut scene, or some comedian saying something offensive because someone will record it post it on twitter and all those kinds of people that get offended (that the content was never made for) will get offended together and then the journalists will all make hay out of it and then you have "mass outrage" from 100 people on twitter and they will make out the world is ending.
Not only do these forever offended people enjoy this whole thing (because it gives them a massive power trip to shut things down without ever leaving the house) but it's also really profitable to the outrage rags. As such the things that get people "outraged" now is less about "you did bad thing" and more into the realm of "you didn't do good thing good enough!! this is outrageous!"
This is why we can't have nice things, it was better when stuff was consumed and seen by the people it was made for, and your mom didn't get to see you and have to answer for you teabagging some dudes female avatar on some FPS game. And then kotaku noticing it from a tweet and asking your boss why you haven't been fired from your engineering / medical job yet.