Moralfag

Moralfags, also known as anti-scum, flaggots, and batshit crazy, are Bible-thumping assholes who believe they have a god-given right to decide what everybody else can watch, read, write, or think. The exact mix of what they object to varies from group to group, though complaints of excessive sex and violence are the most commonplace.

In itself, this isn't unreasonable. Unfortunately, the average moralfaggot tends to take his crusade to the edge of madness, assuming himself to be the Final Arbiter of the Universal Right. These nutjobs are invariably self-appointed, banding together in psychopathic groups known to claim vastly larger memberships than they actually have.

At this extreme, their criticisms completely miss the point; in particularly bad cases, they seize on some sensational-sounding passage out of context, even when the implied immoral message is definitively negated elsewhere in the work. And sometimes, their objections seem downright bizarre. How common certain objections are depends where the group falls on the "political spectrum" (assuming they're on it at all).

They frequently complain to the nearest Media Watchdog, often using astroturfing to lend illusory weight to their complaints. Subsequently, their actions frequently have the opposite effect of what they intended as they draw much more attention and curiosity to what they're attacking, resulting in increased sales or ratings.

If they succeed in getting Content Warnings attached to a work it often results in a Forbidden Fruit appeal. If they produce works intended to show the evils of objectionable content or rail against it while simultaneously portraying it in the media, it often results in a case of Do Not Do This Cool Thing.

Consistent whining by this lunatic fringe can lead to the creation of a Censorship Bureau. If that isn't good enough for them, they make the Moral Substitutes.

The Culture Police are sometimes always Moralfags taken to a satiric and/or frightening extreme. This kind of anti-scum is often responsible for a work being Banned In China, or calling something a "Murder Simulator".

Quotes

 * Moralfags are the lowest type of shit clogging up the cybertubes. Closely related to the basement-dwelling troll, they are the biggest faggots on the face of this planet; the voracious, AIDS-infected tumor that is slowly destroying the Webs. In common with all species of cancer, they are vile, malignant, and practically impossible to remove.


 * As a general rule, moralfags are opposed to any form of free speech which contradicts their own shitfail opinions. Suffering a terminal case of unwarranted self-importance, they are totally incapable of sustaining a rational argument, relying instead on infantile name-calling, petty insults and outright lies to prove their point. Simply stated, such individuals are the maggot-infested sewage at the bottom of the internet cesspool, worse than the trollfag, the white knight and the dramawhore put together.