I'm going to shamefully steal a post from lyra833:

>I look at KiA
>people are once again posting "Satanic Panic" drivel

The PMRC, which is the group that pushed the narrative now known as the "Satanic Panic", was founded by Susan Baker (R) and Sally Nevius (R), and explicitly did not demand censorship of any media for its first two years. Instead, the main demand of this commission was to place PARENTAL ADVISORY stickers on any record that contained "foul language" or "explicit references to sex and violence". Not only did these stickers increase consumer choice/awareness, but they also boosted the sales of any record that sported them, a phenomenon known to the PMRC and publicly approved of in numerous press releases as evidence that "informed consumption of art does not harm free expression". The design of the sticker was specifically chosen to be striking and memorable, and a requirement by the PMRC was that it "not obscure the art on the cover".

The reason you remember the PMRC as a bunch of assholes was that it was taken over by Tipper Gore (D) who began using the name of an organization she did not found to send threatening letters to record executives and demanding that they censor the content of songs if they wanted to be sold in the US (sound familiar?) and then, on top of that, using her husband's (Al Gore, D) authority to summon numerous rock bands to testify before Congress, most notably Twisted Sister. After delivering an embarrassing 20-minute diatribe in favor of censorship, which was apparently so awful it caused numerous ranking committee members to walk out in protest, Gore immediately left the hearing before Twisted Sister was allowed to speak, leaving the two Republican founders of the group, Baker and Nevius, to sit on the receiving end of a nasty dressing-down by Frank Zappa against what Gore had said. Following the atrocious media response to her comments, Gore went on to denounce the PMRC for making those comments (lmao) and collaborate with Joe Libermann (D) and Herb Kohl (D) to try and censor video games.

To this end, she founded "parent activist groups" led by herself (D) and Liebermann (D), who strong-armed video game publishers into allowing "government input" on ESRB ratings to "prevent the spread of stereotypical or violent content".

The only right wing calls to censor video games at this time came from Jack Thompson, an ineffectual joke of a California appellate attorney who was most widely known for filing assault charges against Attorney General Janet Reno (D) for forcibly groping him him and saying he had a tiny penis. Reno went on to become the AG who did Waco. Thompson, for his trouble, was made fun of in GTA2 as "the man with no dick" before he was disbarred by California Governor Jerry Brown (D). Notably, neither Gore nor Liebermann were publicly named or shamed for their efforts to censor music or video games.

As for D&D, which is always brought up when lefties parrot lies about a "Satanic Panic", the most pronounced objection from the religious right came from a certified nut job named Jack Chick, who wrote a very poorly drawn comic about how it was a front for a network of witch covens. WOTC sent free sets to churches and told local game stores in the area to be ready to explain to Christian parents how the game was based on the works of Tolkien. At no point was D&D ever curtailed either in content or reach by the religious right. Ronald Reagan mentioned it in numerous speeches, positively.

Anyone saying that it was "the right" at any point in modern American history is either an idiot or a liar.