May you live in interesting times.

It's not a legal thing. It's simply that the advertising companies have discovered that they can dictate terms to the sites that rely on their advertising revenue to support themselves.

It wasn't really a choice for FAKKU. It was get rid of that content or potentially the entirety of FAKKU goes down when they run out of money. For what it's worth, I think they made the right call in the situation.

Also, thanks bfg10k17 for giving a link. I can't link to LWB on the front page, but there's nothing stopping kind people from posting a link to the site in the comments...