In the last few months I've noticed a lot more threads about prominent people being deleted because they were getting a lot of flak.
In each case, while the criticism was certainly MN's usual brand of robust, it was not without reason or explicitly breaking talk guidelines.
It strikes me that MN are now more protective about rich and influential people than they are of ordinary posters. If you were to apply a similar 'spirit of the site' thread to AIBU then very few treads would remain. MN's trademark humour and debate would be impossible because someone always complains they are offended.
The most recent two which spring to mind were about Sam Smith and Jack Monroe. I wonder whether MN are inadvertently being a bit trigger happy where a celebrity is Trans (in the almost meaning less sense of the word, since neither are actually transsexual)?
[NB I'm not arguing with MN policy of deleting misgendering]
What does everyone else think?