It's actually worse if we allow for the fact that Steemit is a platform maybe being used by locations as diverse as Iran, North Korea, or Libya – and we know that the largely Islam-driven sensors in those countries would love to see a big, juicy target that actually lives up to the lies that they intended to tell about it.
The problem becomes one which Dr. House so elegantly stated as, "everybody lies."
Knowing that we will experience some of the user agents on both sides of the deal lying about who they are and what they want, it's going to become extremely hard to distinguish who is human – much less are they adults.
Adult content can bring in significant money, real money. That is, after all, how adult engineers helped bring the era of easily accessible upload/download content to the Internet. Those adult engineers saw problem that they had, looked around and saw that a lot of people could use solutions, and then did something about it.
Sometimes the coercive power of the State is pretty much entirely given on the whims of the senior researchers. If one of them decide that they just don't like CP in any way, shape, or form – not wholly rationally, decide that they want to come after everyone involved in the space, they certainly can.