I am not inclined to read a story on a website that Mediawatch has categorized as pseudo-science and moderate conspiracy theory.
From what I recall of my university studies, self-censorship in the negative connotation is when a population limits what they express due to a climate of political fear that chills an entire population. The New Republic described it as this in a 2017 article:
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That is the function of political fear: not to quell one individual, but to make an example of her, to send a message to everyone else that they should be careful, or they might be next.
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As American literature seems to have a very healthy pulse of dissent, I would not say that self-censorship is an issue in fiction yet. Though I am sure it is affecting the press to some degree.
If you mean self-censorship in terms of authors writing less about views which are now widely taken to be discriminatory or opressive, then I welcome the change.