Olives @olives@qoto.org

Let's try this again as it seems to be bugging out.

https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2412/03/news135.html #LifeCard under fire over relationship with notorious vigilante censor. #FreeSpeech #anime

Federation is having some hiccups.

Okay, posting it again with better wording (for social media).

https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2412/03/news133.html Visa reaffirms their position when quizzed by #Japan lawmaker on statement made by rep (financial censorship issue). #FreeSpeech #anime #HumanRights

I'm seeing the statement circulating without this particular context, so I'm posting this again (with tags this time).

Despite the 500s, a couple of duplicate posts got through, I'll delete those.

Four 500s before that post went through.

Do they ever complete their quest in #Inuyasha? #anime

https://animehunch.com/tennessee-school-districts-sweeping-manga-ban-sparks-comparisons-to-nazi-era-book-censorship/ So extreme. No fun allowed.

#Tennessee #anime #FreeSpeech #JujutsuKaisen #AttackOnTitan #Inuyasha #TokyoGhoul #Akira #MyHeroAcademia #AssassinationClassroom #FireForce

"Riot Games is wholly owned by Chinese media giant Tencent, which unfortunately implies that any representation in Arcane was cynically added to extract profit from western audiences"
Speculating like this undermines what might otherwise be an informative article (about censorship) with potential cover for censorship. Governmental censorship is censorship.

Bluesky seems to be one of those firms which leans on being a "start-up" (despite having a large userbase) to go crazy censoring without scrutiny from civil society (which other firms pay somewhat more lip service to).

Looking at Bluesky, users seem to consistently avoid particular words to avoid over-zealous censorship.

https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2412/03/news133.html Visa reaffirms it's position when quizzed by the lawmaker on a statement made by a representative (financial censorship issue).

https://endviolenceagainstchildrenconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/France-4.pdf Censorship database (for NCII, although could be troublesome) and age verification proposals from France.

Looks like another lawmaker from the Constitutional Democratic Party in Japan is concerned about financial censorship.

I'm probably more averse to boosting than I should be.

http://endviolenceagainstchildrenconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Brazil-pledge.pdf
"To develop, by December 2026, solutions to improve the age verification system in digital environments, in order to limit children and adolescents' access to content that is inappropriate for their age, while guaranteeing the right to data protection of these individuals."
Age verification came up in one.

It's worth remembering that there was a ministerial conference in earlier November where a bunch of countries got together to make vague pledges to do with thinking of the children (I think I already covered this one months prior but I figured I'd follow up on it). Some of this were things like ending corporal punishment (which doesn't have obvious censorial implications).

Some countries mentioned "online safety" which could mean some sort of censorship.