They only know how to operate within a society so strictly controlled by social norms, for fear of losing one's money/status, that nobody is capable of talking back against their insanity, so when the Internet introduced them to the rest of the real world they lost their marbles.
It's significant for sure, but this culture of pushing nasty shit in everyone's faces all the time sucks no matter what the cause behind it is. That's exactly the kind of shit China does to destroy everyone's self esteem and will. The majority of the population doesn't need constant reminders about issues they don't personally have any problem with themselves.
Most people are unaware that one of the major drivers for this entire subculture was an erotic text adventure called "Corruption of Champions," where the protagonist is changed through the story into something else, sometimes willing and sometimes forced. Corruption is literally a fetish.
The stupid thing is this automatic censorship stuff never actually works as they imagine it. It ends up making things a pain in the ass for regular users, while offering a facade of false security that can be easily circumvented by anyone who actually intends to misuse the platform deliberately. They don't even think, or try to understand the technology at all. They just hate that some people they don't like can talk to each other freely, and reach for the first, simplest, answer that pops into their heads so they can get back to their pizza parties asap.
They don't want to get rid of it. If they got rid of it they would have a much harder time keeping their own people in line by raising the spectre of external threats. Similar to how they don't seem to actually want to get rid of Hamas in Israel.
I think the core push of what started movements like Gamergate have lost their initial thrust
Well, mostly the best and brightest have moved on to more important matters. Gamergate exposed one of the beast's tentacles, but it reaches much farther than just entertainment.
Damn, I was going to link to that comic, but I can't seem to find it anymore.
Yea, but do any of the male leads spread their legs too wide on the subway? Checkmate GoomerGoobers!
I still remember once while checking out female targeted erotica to see what gets them off, and finding a manga where the female lead is kidnapped and chained to a bed in a diaper to be used, then after escaping some time later she returns to capture her attacker, cuts off his arms and legs, and keeps him in a cage in her home to use as a pet in as many depraved ways as the author could imagine. I swear I am not making this up.
Sure they do, but not because they go looking for a fight. They're more than happy to party with them too if the chance arises. One of the major points of One Piece is the distinction between the real world full of unique individuals and the politics of the World Government.
It's the difference between our instincts which teach us how to live in the natural world and our ability to adapt to the artificial world which we have created. I'm convinced that "base" instincts get a bad rap largely because people tend to self-destruct if they can't find a way to adapt, but that really puts an onus on us to make sure the world we pursue is as unintrusive as possible, which leads me to have a very huge problem with the way some people are trying to alter every facet of human life through the use of technology.
Bingo: The narrative that our "base" instincts are something terrible to be overcome appears to represent the world view where things created by man are superior to natural things, imagining that we ourselves are something outside of, and greater than, the natural world.
Only if you have the time and resources to do so, which these artificial crisis seek to rob you of.