> puritans or religious nutjobs

They absolutely are still active and doing write-in campaigns about this; that's where FOSTA/SESTA came from. The ability of evangelicals to sway elections by having a large number of people in a pulpit filter bubble is greater than that of tech in the US.

A Christian group Exodus Cry got Pornhub's payment processing capabilities revoked over involuntary porn hysteria.

The involuntary porn thing seemed pretty real and the not so fringe group… er the New York Times certainly helped.

Facebook allowed users to foment genocide (also NYT article). They didn't lose payment processing. The point that puritanical elements are seeking to push sexuality away still stands. Facebook apologizes and promises to moderate better. Pornhub gets cut off at the knees.

the united states is puritan. we always think we've broken away from our puritanical roots, when really we've just found new expressions of our puritanism.