[OskarS]

> Basically thought crime

I 100% agree with your central point, and I do think this is a very disturbing ruling. But it's not "thought crime", it's speech regulation. There's a very big difference between thought crime as in 1984 and speech regulation. There are many ways societies regulate speech, even liberal democratic ones: we don't allow defamation, and there are "time, place and manner" regulations (e.g. "yelling 'Fire!' in a crowded theater is not free speech"), and many countries have varieties of hate speech regulation. In Germany, speech denying the Holocaust is illegal. No society on earth has unlimited free speech.

"Thought crime", as described in 1984, is something different: "thought crime" is when certain patterns of thought are illegal, even when unexpressed. This was, most certainly, expressed, which places it in a different category.

Again, I totally agree with your central point that this is a censorious moral panic to a disturbing degree (are they banning "Lolita" next?), but it's not thought crime.