So I just noticed that /younglove/ got nuked and /bl/ is coming up 404s and any posts return "invalid board" so it's clearly in-process of being nuked. I just used to pop in there just to debate the hilarious hypocrisy of laws regarding deviant sexual preferences. I don't give a shit about real kids.
Why should any of us care if a bunch of literal pedos get kicked out?
Because they weren't stupid about things. They were extremely careful to remove any actual illegal content (pictures of clothed children are creepy, but they aren't ILLEGAL), instantly deleting CP bot posts like any other board does, kicking out anyone declaring themselves underage, banning people talking about actually committing crimes. If anything, they had more reason to step lightly around issues like this, and they got gone. Suddenly. Just in the last couple of days. After fullchan has allowed them to exist mostly unmolested (ha!) since the inception of the board.
I have to think this is not a coincidence. This means that the site owners are caving, probably because of this bill and the larger implications it raises. And once they cave a little bit, they'll go whole-hog in no time at all. You all fucking know how slippery these slopes are; you've all seen this sort of shit happen elsewhere; I know you have. So, I have to think that /shota/ and /loli/ are next.
Then they'll come here. Why? Because they'll call it "promoting bestiality", which is illegal.