Things used to be more scrutinized. e.g. look at the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hot Coffee controversy and legal fallout over sexual content that existed in the game data files but could only be accessed by modding the game, at which point you could just mod the content in. Porn websites also used to generally put anything explicit behind a credit card barrier, and there was an attempt to require that that the supreme court struck down.

That was just a handful of loud busybodies, and society was smart enough then to not hand them the legal reins to placate them.

maybe the early aughts, none of this was the case when i was a teen it was basically unencumbered access