Needed to make this a main post for the sake of visibility, but in general, I think reset the clock did a lot more damage than help, because of the fact that people believe that the only reason you could ever be against a certain thing, is because you’re engaging in it yourself, when we know for a fact that isn’t the case.
To be specific, it is very much possible to be against loli/shota porn and not be an IRL predator. People like Ableist forget that, while I’m not against it existing per se, I understand why certain places would ban it altogether, and I would actually like for Ableist or anyone else to actually post the specific places where “governments ban loli/shota porn and waste police resources” where people have actually been arrested for the sole possession of that fictional content, because as much as you say that, I’ve never seen it. Unless that’s like a European thing, I’ve generally never heard of that before.
I just don’t get why some people don’t understand why the average person thinks that someone who jerks off to loli/shota porn isn’t right in the head.
It's mostly this one, except it's less that they're pretending and more that reality is gradually forcing us to recognize that there's something to this "sexual morality" thing. The majority of Gamergate/Kotakuinaction could not be described as "right wing" or "religious" when it started - more like a bunch of materialist nerds and tech people - but they're getting dragged along by the tides all the same, so conflict is inevitable.
Frankly it's still surprising to me that we went from celebrating Obergefell (SCOTUS legalizing gay marriage) to debating the harmfulness of porn. One time in halfKiA a guy threatened to shoot me if I ever "came to take his fleshlight away."
Nice to know their moderation has kept the crazies out!
If they're anything like Power Bottom Supreme (thanks for that one, I'm stealing it) their definition of "crazies" is far different than ours.