Philippines Bans Loli: “Hentai is Child Pornography”
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Apr 15, 2009 16:57 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Feminism, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Philippines, Politics, Religion
The Philippines has moved to ban all loli porn, or “hentai” in its wording; a Congressional statement then describes “hentai” as “the Japanese pornographic cartoon that depicts children in explicit sexual activity.”
Offenders face up to 12 years in prison for possession of such drawings.
The law is being promoted by both Catholics and feminists.
Congress explains the reasoning, such as it is, behind the bill in their awkwardly written official statement:
“Hentai, the Japanese pornographic cartoon that depicts children in explicit sexual activity, is considered child pornography material and one may be severely penalized by just mere possession of it.
A bill banning this pornographic cartoon was approved recently by the Joint House Committees on Justice and Welfare of Children chaired by Rep. Matias Defensor (3rd District, Quezon City) and Rep. Monica Prieto-Teodoro (1st District, Tarlac), respectively.
Prieto-Teodoro, one of the authors of the measure, said the bill penalizes the offenders who sell, offer, advertise, and promote child pornography; and have been found to possess, download, purchase, reproduce, or make available child pornography materials with the intent of selling or distributing them.
Prieto-Teodoro said child pornography material refers to the means and methods in which a child carries out pornography.
“It can be in forms of visual depiction, audio representation and written text or materials that advocate explicit sexual activity with a child,” Prieto-Teodoro said.
She explained that the said images of real and indistinguishable children in films, digital images or computer images, whether made or produced electronically or mechanically; drawings, cartoons, sculptures or paintings depicting children in an explicit sexual activity are just some of the visual depictions considered as child pornography materials.
Rep. Darlene R. Antonino-Custodio (1st District, South Cotabato) another author of the bill to be known as the “Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009″, said the Internet which is used for gaining knowledge is being used by some as a medium to gratify sexual desire.
“Once the picture of child victim is flashed either on the Internet or video clip, the picture is open for the entire world to see. The child loses his or her privacy and innocence which can never be restored,” Antonino-Custodio said.
“Adults indulging in child pornography either by purchasing, viewing or producing them, should be subjected to the most severe punishments,” Antonino-Custodio said.
Under the bill, child pornography refers to any representation of a child below 18 years of age, engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts of a child primarily for sexual purposes.”
The confused wording of the report may reflect the probable ignorance of the bill’s sponsors regarding what exactly it is they are proposing to ban.
Penalties are draconian, with imprisonment of 6-12 years and a fine of up to 500,000 pesos for simple possession.
Sentences of 12-20 years are mandated for those involved with the production of such material, but it is not clear whether this includes material in which no actual children were involved.
Given the highly papist proclivities of the Philippines, and the less than perfect democratic process the country enjoys, the bill is thought unlikely to face difficulty becoming law.
The bill’s authors include the usual opponents of freedom of expression and individual liberty: members of BUHAY, a pro-life ultra-conservative religious party, and GABRIELA, a leftist feminist organisation, are key advocates of the ban.
The level of enforcement the law may receive seems unlikely to be too vigorous, as rule of law in the Philippines is not as entrenched as it is in most developed countries. This seems unlikely to console those who do eventually suffer prosecution under it, however.
It is also possible that the law may be unconstitutional, and so eventually be struck down, but this may prove a lengthy and fraught process, as even in nations with constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression such prosecutions continue.
Via Oneiros’ report on the forums.
The theatre of moralism seems a popular political pastime of late. Loli bans have been proposed in Japan, and passed in the US, UK and Australia. Perhaps such histrionics prove a useful distraction from poor economic stewardship…
Yet another land on my "will never visit" list.
haha so fucking true :D
I totally agree...
*Add into "Ban List"*
i wonder if evenualy the every country but 2 bans lolies would be funny to see that countrys econamy shoot threw the roof xD
as for this whole 2D ban crap wish people would lern its not the matrials fault its people heads,
We're talking about politicians..."learn" is a word they are unfamiliar with.
I'm a Filipino anime blogger, and I totally disagree with this shit.
Pornography has been invented so that people won't go about and start raping other people.
Politicians, they think they know it all. Join me my comrade Filipino ani-bloggers that oppose such tyranny!
Right on. I'm quite annoyed by this. They're just doing this since they can't solve a single thing in our God Forsaken country.
Pity to those of you from such a meh country. But there's always Arabia where you can buy the 3D version and no one can do a thing about it XD.
So true for Arabia...But ah well. *adds into ban list*
Oh god... Why was I born in the Philippines....? We couldn't even save our own country from foreign invaders and now this is happening....
Now where was that reasoning that has failed me...
“Once the picture of child victim is flashed either on the Internet or video clip, the picture is open for the entire world to see. The child loses his or her privacy and innocence which can never be restored,” Antonino-Custodio said.
You suck man.
Hmmm...
The congress has got so much shit to go through before they can even lend an ear to this proposition. I mean there's so much whistle blowing and scandal digging going on, not to mention the other forgotten controversial bills
Me thinks this is just one of the bills that they pass so that they look like they're doing their job rather than just napping in the senate..
These politicians are st*pid as sh*t. Why dont they read ALL about it first. Loli is not equals to Hentai. I'm not a fan of Loli things but this is just toooooooooooo st*pid. Bu**sh*t!
I'm beginning to hate my country even more. Jeez~ retards
most of all the aged pinoys are stupidly old fashioned... the imagine their children to be pure till they reach marriage... hell i even know filipino politicians who get arrested for rape and such... yet they get run for office as soon as they get out... these things really make my home country suck ass...
..........yay for being born here, it makes me wanna go to Japan way more than it did before >_>
This is bullshit!!! The Philippine's Government SUCKS!!! A weak government without the trust from its people. They can't even control their laws/bills and yet they're making one. That's totally bullshit. The bill's just for show.
I doubt the bill will be imposed here, I even doubt that many are aware of it.
Its just bluff, I'm sure of it
better add the philippines in your travel advisory
My deepest condolence to our Filipino hentai comrade.*salute*
WAaaaaa i live in the UK. Now i better be careful. So with Anonymous. *salute* may the net be with you.
this fact gives utter sadness into my heart. so, should i bury / burn all my mangas and figures depicting such images stated above?
That's basically all your manga/figures. I bet they can't see a difference between Yotsuba&! and hentai.
"Given the highly papist proclivities of the Philippines, and the less than perfect democratic process the country enjoys, the bill is thought unlikely to face difficulty becoming law."
amen... not to mention if the church DOES agree, however i'm not too sure about this...
Yeah, the church could end up being the primary protesting entity :D
They had a nice episode in South Park about this... lol
yeah. The church likes to get in the way of many things. and because many people fallow them they have a big impact. its sad :(.
haha I loved that South Park episode! lol
and to think i'm filipino...
You're ashamed of your birthright just because of this?
I do
among other things, like the non-existent culture, to the shitty smog, and the ghetto-ness of the entire country, the malls which are just places to pretend like the outside isnt shit and ghetto, the absolute incapability to create any form of entertainment that isnt cheesy or watered down, and the horribly stupid fucking shit that they spout while on television, that same generic voice that goes over every filipino advertisement, etc.
it's not like they'll raze you comp just because you have a chiyo-chan pic for the wallpaper..
To anonymous: Sorry to hear that. Though I hope you're aware that this isn't the only country that has all of those things you've said
ill agree with you all but leave the malls alone. even though its kinna corporaty....that is the only escape filipinos have....
nah... it's just for show
no implementation / hard to implement
it' not like they're gonna bust in into everyone's house and check right?
thank god we have a sucky government!
My condolences.
whew... somehow my country sucks...
and people who think so
strange. Strange. I'm Filipino, I've heard nothing of this. This is such a failure. -_-;
I remember the 1st time I went to a certain part of a place in the Philippines called Quiapo. Lots of people approaching me saying, "Boss... hentai?" They were actually selling it on the street, wide open. Thought it was funny. Even with that law, it probably won't scare the vendors away.
The law is actually almost non-existent here. Just know how to pay someone off and you're set. Also don't go bragging about how big your H folder is and you'll probably be fine.
The law is existent, the people enforcing it are not. C'mon, the Police forces use dial-up(when they have computers, that is) Most don't even know their Miranda rights.
I couldn't agree more. I bet some of those peddling the so-called "Hentai" materials are being protected by the police themselves. The same can be said with other countries police forces. Corruption and Incompetence is universal.
+ 1 more reason to give up on the country
nice comment perv
Word up.
does it make a difference? i'd never be caught dead in the philipines. its a shit country anyway.
seriously?
before you say that at least go to the country
the only people that have the right to bash that country are people like us who lived there for half our lives and were born filipino
dood Philippines is just like Cuba or Hawaii
the only difference is there are no black people in the philippines and as for comparing it to hawaii, its just not a state of amerikkka
Dood, the Philippines is way better than Cuba or Hawaii..the country's filthy rich with resources which isn't used by our own people.
oh sure, before I hear another "rich with corruption" bit..Give me a country with no corruption problem..Even with the economic crisis a non-corrupted country would rise to the occasion easily..But no country did, now didn't they?
Genny, I am a Filipino - and I think this REALLY is a shit country.
this is only a shit country because of the shit people running it.
hahaha. I'm filipino but i love you for that comment. I've been stuck in this hell hole for 19 years which is ironic because it's mostly christian......
fuck you.
Go kill yourself racist freak.
Fuck that Philippines is awesome.
They better get the "wording" right. General Hentai is fine. Lolicon, can be banned in the Philippines for all I care.
so true! they regret being born in a country that is God-forsaken and has good education! besides, if they love loli so much, why don't they just use the internet?! absolutely NOTHING is banned here.
God-forsaken isn't a good thing.
And less than half the country graduates elementary school, much less gets a college education.
Hypocrite Anon you are, yes. Trying to save your own butt at the expense of your comrades, bloody traitor? If general hentai is fine, so is loli. They're both fictional, and as long as you can understand that, your fine. Trying to condemn loli in order to try give yourself some fake semblance of "respectability" only makes you look like a moron.
naw dood the police there is so crappy you think police academy is a serious thing
really its shit
learn it from somebody who lived there
just hand out something like 100 pesos and you are free to go
they should deal with their corruption first
Well lolicon-hentai is a topic one can argue about. I can understand the government. Sex with children shouldn't be promoted by visual media, as long as the psychological impact is unknown.
frickin perverted asshole. so you only go to places, not to enjoy it's beautiful sceneries and features, but to view porn?!
and whoever regrets being born in the philippines, fine! go to america, or japan, the sexually corrupt countries where perversion is promoted, and whose citizens are on the direct pathway to HELL!
problem is, most of us can't afford to leave this shithole.
Fun fact: most Filipinos who claim to love their country live abroad. those who live here are struggling to get out.
my country's ran by idiots... damn...
>The theatre of moralism seems a popular political pastime of late. Loli bans have been proposed in Japan, and passed in the US
Not passed in the US, go to hell.
On a state level I believe they have?
I'm Filipino...and I have loli mangas..Could I get arrested? I think I'm too young to face charges~~ <33
Just to be safe i'll take em off your hands
Just lock them safely inside a hidden TrueCrypt volume and put 20 random character password on it. Let's see them prove anything then. For a good measure, name the file something less dangerous such as "weddingbackup.iso" and let's see them break into that.
You can't get arrested yet since the law isn't passed (unless your legal system is radically different than everything else) but you would be in danger if it does.
The real problem is that if your laws allow ISPs to monitor your traffic, they may as well catch your lolis on the wire and use that as an evidence. And we all know how objective people are when it comes to what they perceive as perverts *cough* perverted justice *cough*.
No matter what their reasons are, in the end all they are trying to do is deny freedom of speech to their population. I'm sure they will be using the excuse "this law only affects pedophiles/perverts" but this is really not a valid argument that should be legalized.
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither." - B. Franklin
If anything else fails, you can team up with Icy-nee-san and create an evil pro-lolicon empire that plots to take over the world.
You'll be safe. Don't worry.
http://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2006/ra_9344_2006.html
Read Up on R.A. 9344
I wanna join Icy-nee-san team.
it has most of them are the states with an age of sexual consent of 18 instead of 16.
this is fcking dumb >_<
I agree!
Yep.
The pure truth. More words are not necessary.
Hands down!
Hmmmmm... it's becoming more and more common around the world... hope this doesn't spread around the globe in the near future... or it's gonna be the end of all 2D loli (well, maybe except in Japan... or is it even safe there anymore Oo...)
Laws should be made by people who know what they're talking about. These politicians are all old men who hear a word like hentai and think hentai=Child porn.
BTW Did that say written text????? WTF!!!!!!
That latter point could get interesting seeing how Nabakov's: Lolita, which spawned the word lolicon, is considered literature, and one therefore has a legitimate reason both to own and have read it within the context of a literary analysis/book report, etc..
And everyone will go to Japan D:
It's too crowded already.
Well...sucks to be in the Philippines now and for our Pinoy brothers :/
you know, you could always do it on the internet, so stop dissing our country!
those law makers and those who sponsored/supports this bill are just retards and i doubt this will be passed as a law >.>
they just need to say 'anyone who is opposed to this law supports child pornography, or is a pedophile themselves' and everyone will stand in line to sign it.
sad but true.
A way to go against it, is to make being a pedophile something bad, but sustainable - like abortion! Change the mind of people and you can change the world. And kill anyone who isn't changable. Yeah,....
We need to whitewash not only loli, but also real CP. It's the only way. As long as CP is something everyone in their right mind has to be against, nothing good for loli-fans will happen.
OHHH NOOOO! IM FILIPINO D: and i love my loli :[
damn bakit nila ban T_T tang ina naman oh.....
haiz... kakainis Law dito sa pinas..
lol but what can ya do...i guess they said "everyone's doing it" so they banned loli as well
Probably doing it because they can't think of anything better the do like getting people off the streets.
ok lng yan. halos wala namang komputer mga pnp e XD yung meron, wla nmn internet.
kk wow, nag papatawa ka ba paps, alam mo gaano ka walang kwenta and law system ng pinas
need muna nila ayusin ang corruption sa govenment bago yang mga katangahan na yan
hahahah.... nice joke... As if "gabriela" and other feminist/gov't body can do anything about it. First, paano nila malalaman kung sino may H at sino hindi? Second, 2d NOT 3d so no one gets hurt, except your hands XD. Third, KOTONG and your free to go. Saying it's banned is pointless d2 sa 'pinas if they can't even enforce traffic.
katangahan is the root word...kinna like how they blame ted failon.....
Im feeling your pain. its been passed on to the UK as well.
Morality, from a country where they boil up unhatched baby chickens for a meal? mmm, crunchy!
this has gotta suck for all the people in the philipines... if their government passes a law like that i dont think it'll take long for australia or any of the other countries with this.. [sarcasm]'impending problem'[/sarcasm]:P.. to follow suite.. :p wen that happens im moving to new zealand..(whars that?!) or japan....
wupz.. epic fail :( was meant to post a comment not reply sorry!
No, ducks.
Because the Church decreed that anything is fair game against "lower creatures"
its still a bit of "modern medieval times" in that country stil...sigh, im kinda glad i left it for somewhere i can fap to almost everything i want
ehh, anything but "crunchy".
more like...soupy...or like, rubbery, depending on what third of the egg youre goin for...
dood food is food
you either eat it and like it or you dont
you come spouting your stupidity when you love eating your weeabo food of sushi that is raw
atleast the chicks are cooked
fck, these bills are just to impress the extremist in the country for the candidates of upcoming elections in 2010 in the philippines.
edit: just made
true... true..
I will find it very impressive if a law they make actually do get enforced...
I think this is just another one of those laws that's there for display...
OH! how so very true.
And if they're going to ride the "trend" couldn't that dumbass at least gotten his facts right??? pssshh!!!
"Hentai, the Japanese pornographic cartoon that depicts children in explicit sexual activity"
OMG @___@ epic fail in so many levels
it's embarrassing to call myself a Filipino right now >__>
Don't be embarrassed to be Filipino. Even if they outlaw loli 2d/print it won't be enforced. Besides, you have some of the hottest looking LBFMs in the world for us men to drool at...
P.S For those who don't know...LBFM (Little Brown Fucking Machine)
where's ichiro ino? would love hearing him commenting about this matter.
They don't allow you to browse the interwebz in jail I guess.
I laughed hard.. they must be on crack, although the information/porn ratio of the number of websites might have tilted more towards information as time passes.. The web had its time were the number of porn sites outnumbered that of the non porn sites, might still hold true today.. but I doubt it because of the increase of personal pages and everyone pretty much having a site. (but not everyone has a pornsite).
No news from him in here, even after 100+ comments O_ò
hes argueing in the forums with another philipino
500,000 pesos? That's like 2 US dollars, right?
10,000$
lol
Lol Indeed
lol xD
you're a retard
fucking brainless dumbass.
so no loli fapping in that country huh..
I don't believe I've ever heard of a loli fapping and getting arrested for it.
I don't believe I've ever heard of a loli getting arrested for an act she couldn't possibly do.
So the pink haired girl up there a philipino or something??
No, she's not. That's just a picture reference for the article.
the "pc users in behind bars" pic would fit the title better IMO.
I think Artefact wanted to give the Filipinos their last loli....
I got to that picture before I got to any little brown girls.
This will not hinder our Filipino Brothers and Sisters who love hentai
Haha.
Absurd.
Like hell they can stop me.
how can they ban loli when they eat dogs?
how can they ban loli when they have corrupt politicians?
how can the congress ban loli when an ex-congressman is a convicted rapist?
ROFL!!!!
I'm sure the Congress is preparing a big welcome celebration for the comeback of their comrade, the child rapist. :D
This is the Philippines -- where high profile notorious criminals have the higher chance to be given with executive clemency by our loli.. I mean midget president.
Dumb fuck. Leave the dog-eating to Koreans.
“Once the picture of child victim is flashed either on the Internet or video clip, the picture is open for the entire world to see. The child loses his or her privacy and innocence which can never be restored,”
Won't somebody please think of the poor imaginary children!
And there imaginary feelings.
And their imaginary parents
And their imaginary virginity.
or you could stop imagining and actually look at the situation of child porn.
Yeah, a bit extreme.
Someone should make a map of the world with a legend to show how far the moral paranoia has spread thus far.
if you did make it, you'll find my country pretty much untouched.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEERE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
The Philippines has more shit to worry about than banning Hentai/Lolis...
Incompentent Lawmakers...
since i'm not familiar with exaggerate laws...
can "i just rape an imaginary loli in my dream" written text on notepad = face 12years in jail???
here we go again...*sigh*
;_;
Just hold on tight until I start manufacturing intelligent loli androids who lack the common modern ability to become narrow-minded bigots.
Then comes founding an artificial nation somewhere in the middle of the Pacific or Atlantic, with at least half the population being loli androids raised by pro-otaku government or caring citizens. Or just cloned endlessly.
Back to my tower of mad science, gotta pick up the pace a little apparently...
sounds like Bioshock..with a loli twists, who are the Big Daddys?
Philippines? Where 90% of all females are traps?
Where's the ban on those?
theres no need to ban traps you faggot.
lol
That's in Thailand, i believe.
thats soooooo coool.
You're thinking of Thailand, buddy.
Philippines has great resources and places "BUT"
the law here is kinda crooked.. >____<
I hate the government, can't even eliminate corruption and stuff..but it's great!!yay
Damn it..!! there are also a lot of anime fanatics here.. ok not to discourage anyone though
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i want to leave this shi* counrty
you're not alone my dear anon...but before leaving, try to spell country correctly first..
before other annoying anons would try to fight with me..unahan ko na kayo....
What I am trying to say here is at least try to prove yourself to the world that your are FIT to leave this God-forsaken country...
I don't care if it's only a mistype or because of you're typing-happy fingers, but now that I've explained it..I hope you all will understand...
"prove yourself to the world that your are FIT"
should be
"prove yourself to the world that YOU are FIT"
Going along the same sort of response, you should probably learn the difference between your and you're before you tell someone else to learn to type correctly...
Aw shit, someone beat me to it.
You beat yourself to it anon.
please stop doing that. no one like grammar nazis.
nice find! I thought no one will notice it!
Wow you must be so smart you think you can pull off the "trolls trolling trolls" thing here huh? =b Nice backpedal bro.
OMG! another grammar Nazi.
lol Was going to mention the same thing. If you know what there trying to get through then let them be ^^
then LEAVE, you fucking, unappreciative FAGGOT!
i lived in the philipines and i too agree to all of your comments its really getting boring around here there handful of girls who wore clothes like in japn but there are not that popular here but my niece like to dress like japanese girls but she cant they'll only ridiculed her here but hey its not that bad to go here there are still many beautiful girls and places here i guarantee it the only thing sucks around here are the law about pornography damn you all
The Philippines just got shittier.
i agreed to that...
that means it is already shitty in the first place?
If you consider kidnapping and bom aren't shitty, then it is actually not a bad place.
ah i get it, they decided to include hentai loli as "child pornography" because they think watching hentai will lead you to committing child rape or something.
@5th anonymous:
imho it's pretty stupid to base a country's morality by the way they eat unhatched baby ducks.
Awww..even fucking priests are fucking gay lolicons n shotacons..sheesh..how unbecoming..
go to hell bitch.
What a bunch of moralfags
i know there are a lot issues needed to be taken care of instead of banning this kind of category and theres not much room to go anywhere elses anymore
I bet a whole months salary to go to charity if this is passed. Politicians here are stupid pricks who only want attention and money. People are killing other people and they focus on this?
thats why i haet my own country, its annoying and stupid. wdf. atleast anyone can buy liquor and cigarettes at any age. maybe i should go home. xD
-Sigh
I glad I declined to move to that country many times.
(is Pinoy)
And will now never again think to move there ever.
Tooo Japannnnnn! ^_^
Looks like I'm not gonna be visiting Philippines anytime soon..
Hmm,there's not much debates on the forum though. Just some random argument between filipinos. I wonder what they're going to be commenting here *wait eagerly*
then don't visit. we don't need any more foreign perverted parasites, we have enough.
Hooray for bullshit legislation
Seriously, I bet those officials who made up that law actually love loli. Well, some of them, that is.
I can only imagine one of their priests holding onto a picture of Taiga in her school swimsuit.
So pedophiles no longer have release? I wonder if this will increase the rate of child molesting in the Phillipines. Of course most loli indulger's have completely innocent goals, like myself ;).
Of course. Japanese Hentai in all forms...just color theory and anatomy practice.
I just wanna become a good cartoonist, GODDAMMIT!D: <
I'm betting that bill would eventually be stacked up in the "forgotten" list~
We're a country that has hundreds of other problems..
Here in the Philippines, topics get attention.. then after some time, it gets forgotten~
so true
now now.. Where is Ichiro?
I would love to hear his comment about this..
LOL this is a joke. This is just for "show".
They wont enforce it. I mean how can they enforce it when they can't even handle child prostitutes in the night on the streets.
We have had copyright laws... They were only effective for a few months and in the next year they were completely forgotten.
Philippine laws is a joke! All you need is money to keep out of trouble.
LOL
WORD.
I'm Filipino..
And everything you said is TRUE.
Philippines itself is a joke.
o.O oops sorry
you are a fucking slut who doesn't have anything else to do than insult a beautiful country, only because it bans pedophilia. SICK PEDOPHILE!!!
bah~ i hate my country more!
then get out of it, we don't want you bitch!
I think fakku(a hentai site) gave a recent list of unique visits sorted by country. Philippines came out pretty much as second. I'd guess there may be similar amounts here. It amuses me to think how many Filipinos could be reading this article and are "mourning" in silence.
it's not surprising since Filipinos here are well adept when it comes to the internet..
Nope. Philippines amounted to 1 in every 15K. Singapore on the other hand, amounted to 1 in every 2K.
hmm then why are we second?
You have a larger chance to get at least a single instance of tails if you flip multiple coins instead of one. Philippines just has a lot of coins to work with. Canada was matched for second, but their total population only amounts to a third of the Philippines'. Just in case, I'm not Filipino. Your "we" was vague.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=hentai
http://www.google.com/trends?q=anime
like this?
hentai =/= animated child porn
ignorant lawmakers
haha... now Philippines can invite UNICEF to protect 2d lolis...
drawing the naked lolis can make you rotten in jail 12-20 years... WOW!!!
oh well...
fapping to "hentai" actually helps curb down rape cases!! (i think)
maybe its just me, but dont guys lose their drive after cumming??
Orgasm makes a male incredibly sleepy and sedated, so yeah, losing their drive is the least of their worries, heh.
I never thought of sex as a natural tranquilizer. XD Funny image, that.
All hentai isn't lolis. Give 2d woman a chance Philippines.
Wth. Its getting closer.. Lets hope Malaysian politicians are busy over political problems and not pursue such unnecessary bans.
i thought they are already ban all of this things long time ago... and the extreme act last year they started seize all ecchi figurine that sale at hobby shop...
Ah. that incident. madness! At least other figure shops are ok. I must not lose my daily dose of loli.
As much as how Malaysia is too sensitive to pornography, i'm kinda relieved that they're barely care about these things.... though, i can see an episode of 999 showing Mazidul Ahmad busting hentai materials owners 10years from now.
Yeah just like how we can torrent freely without lawyer letters ^^
Philippines has a loli for a president. go figure
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/04SZbYe4qvb8l/610x.jpg
I LOL'D
This.
hah, if loli's were anything like that midget presided then i dont mind if they ban loli altogether!! XD
Cannot unsee O_O
this period . is only 1/1284 of the actual size of her mole.
Hahahahaha.
nearing 2010
nearing election
they're active again
oh gawd when will it end
'Loli bans have been proposed in Japan, and passed in the US, UK and Australia' Hope the next won't be in Europe... Yeah UK did not count in Europe, since they banned lolis!
wait dont Dilipina women go to japan to become prostitutes??? They should ban thant insted!!!! That makes more sense rather than banning 2D. All I can say to them is PUTANGINA NYO!!!! SANA MAMATAY NA KAYO!!!!
HAHHAHHA tae yan TAMA YAN DUDE MAMATAY NA kayu lahat ahahaahah!!!!
Ok, seriously, that's just being racist towards your own countrymen. Dayum.
dilipina? ang tanga mo.
*sigh*
I can understand that the lot of them are corrupt bastards, hell there are many corrupt politicians in all the countries of the world. But to find out they are just moronic to the point that they don't even know the very definition of the word they crucified on their crusade for morality? I'm sad to say this, but this just makes me utterly disgusted to be a Filipino.
Though I suppose banning something that can't fight back is a hell of a lot easier than stopping actual human trafficking. You know, helping kids that actually exist outside of the 2D world. Oh sure I bet they are pretty proud of themselves for keeping our beloved 2D girls safe and sound, but who will think of the 3D girls? Who I tell you? WHO!?
I doubt they'll do raids on every house! XD
they won't, but you probably want to be careful when you download some ... "things".
In this country the more you try to prohibit something the more people try to do it, so yeah
Elections are near, everyone is going for "self beautification" (POGI POINTS in filipino) to make people vote for them.
Fear not fellow Loli Sommeliers, Piracy has long been banned here by law, but just take a look around and pirated media is everywhere dirt cheap 20 pesos for a VCD copy of port, heck kids can afford them(everytime I walk out of my office building in a business district, I see people selling them). Despite raids everyday by the Optical Media Board. Not that I condone piracy.
This is also to satisfy some sort of "passed bills quota" unwritten rule in the government,again to gain the favor of anyone who will add to their vote count may it be feminists or homosexuals.
Once passed, no one will take it seriously, or even try to follow it.
“Hentai, the Japanese pornographic cartoon that depicts children in explicit sexual activity, is considered child pornography material and one may be severely penalized by just mere possession of it."
Now that is some a very intellectual definition on hentai as stated by these dumbfuck lawmakers. I salute them, really.
Now this proves that here, everything animated are exclusively for kids only.
This country even suck at pop culture to begin with.
maybe they didn't google the meaning of hentai properly..
http://xs538.xs.to/xs538/09163/goingtojail695.png
Holy shit. I just produced childporn.
Good thing I don't live in Philippines.
Awesome pic. I came buckets.
I spent too much, I think I'm impotent now.
Goddamn extreme feminists ruining it for the rest of us and giving us girls a bad name.
That is a lovely definition of hentai they have there.
By the same people who gave us the Flat Earth Society too. ^_-
Personally, I don't these "feminists" on multiple levels. For instance, they claim to be "pro-life feminists", wat? Personally, I don't really understand pro-life feminism.
Being against abortion can be seen seen as a feminist thing? When all those women years ago had to partake in a coathanger abortion and went through an awful amount of trouble women had to go through about the whole area of pregnancy?
I am personally pro-choice and pro-lolicon and shotacon as opposed to this sort of advocacy. I don't oppose feminism. But I can never support these sort of things.
Can you marry me?
-Another antifeminist girl
seeing as how it's the Philippines, I'm somehow not surprised. If the Filipinos have any sense of mind this bill should never pass, but you never know. In a country that is politically corrupt and questionably backwards some money with bribes could go a long way...
nuuuuuu
i cant go back to my home country because of this.
dang, if i went back there and they see my collection...
my country somehow sucks..
so sad..
yeah! our country sucks! it's time to leave the Philippines!
have you left? please say yes, because the country will no doubt improve if you did.
i fell bad about our stupid government, I'd rather devote myself to the theocracy of DECEM than show my loyalty to foolish old men who are ignorant of the pleasures of others and do nothing but control the laws to pass their ignorance into the despair that hinders us from enlightenment
What's next? raiding anime conventions? Implanting undercover NBI agents on those?
.....and yet some people have the nerve to call me an idiot.
They want to ban loli's because no one's watching local porn anymore?
Heck! They just want to show off. There is no laws for a man with money in the philippines.
Non-maid local porn fucking where?
Local porn is too softcore. I should know, I've tried looking for hardcore mainstream porn from the Philippines but all I get is that trike patrol shit that's full of fuglies.
FHM and Playboy Philippine editions are merely slightly ecchi, and there's no good nudity.
which is why there is a thing called "the internet".
My country sucks even more now... Then again I'm not that scared, sure this will go in the "I don't care department" in the political sect, pretty much like what happens to most of the laws here.
Since when did my country decided to give a damn about lolis, they were fine with human trafficking
Because those asshole lawmakers see lolis as soft and easy targets, while their own corrupt kin who are behind in other nefarious activities are not. :|
Most politicians aren't into loliporn. Human trafficking, on the other hand...
i like this mike way better than mikeusa
agree
GTFO mike abundo
Hmm.. Maybe since the time that the president of the philippines is not on the loli standards? Haha! Im thinking that they cant think of any new laws anymore.
Aren't pedophiles and lolicons differ? The people of the government are to old to understand these things. They're busy on corruption that they don't even have time to watch an anime or 2.... XD
well, you can bribe them anyways... every officers.. hayz.. XD
Its about goddamn time. im philipino btw
You can't even spell Filipino right.
your a pervert
Filipedo
lol'd
What's next? Undercover agents at anime conventions? Raids on toy stores? Random searches of sketchpads?
and hacking our computer.
don't forget checking on your mail.
GTFO, you're just repeating what some Anon said
Goodbye Idolmaster revoltechs.
lol... Philippines is just... argh! Now i feel ashamed of my country!
you should be ashamed of YOURSELF.
My country is getting shittier with each passing day. From drunk/drugged lamers who think they're cool on the street, waving their T-shirts with stars and suns, showing off their gross misshapen bodies, gay men who are really bad cases of the ugly stick, and politicians who think they're smart just because they can shit out fancy words in their speeches.
And they think their problem comes from this.
May this country and all who love and patronize it be burned in bloody hell with all their innards ripped apart, bodies mutilated and being devoured by demented images of themselves, then again, what's the difference?
But...you have the beautiful Kristine Hermosa living in your country! It can't all be bad?
We have a lot of beautiful Filipinas [http://finefilipinas.com]. Our leaders still suck.
stop promoting your sucky sites faggot
Get the hell out of SanCom Abundo!
at least, Philippines and Japan have something in common: weirdness. Too bad weirdness in Philippines is stupidity from higher ops.
HELP US, PANDAY! LET US ENJOY FREE RORIKON HENTAI!!!
Tsk, politicians here really do know how to create senseless laws. How can they label any character as below 18 since their profiles are just fictional?? And come on, privacy of anime characters?? Do they love anime children that much?
Guess they need to monitor every computer to implement this. As if they can waste money on that.
all loli loving filipinos! fight back! fight the government for this injustice! fight for the loli! Fight for your (pulls out sword) FREEDOM!!!!!
http://gohlico.multiply.com/journal/item/187/Anti-Hentai_Bill_Sux_Art_Contest
We're already doing it. :D
this is bullcrap...
they're all faggots.
oh, my bad... I accidentaly replied to your comment...
sorry.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I blame society for this.
Soon, Japan will become the only refuge for all things sweet and delicious. I better start saving my money to move there.
My condolences to Filipinos. I hope you'll still continue visiting this site.
They're also quite a bunch in here, Artefact would cry hard
it's amazing how fast and abundant the comments come in when it comes to loli ban news.
I find this funny: http://www.google.com/trends?q=hentai
See who's country is on the top?
i'm surprised that my country cames second... guess i'm not the only pervert in my country after all XD
nah, The law in the Philippines suck, I mean they have been trying to stop piracy for years but nothing is being done. you can buy a pirated cd with 12 movies for 40 pesos here roughly 90cents. Same with porn, heck kiddy pron is being sold in plain sight here. Besides they only catch people who sell them and not people who buy them. Like I said the law sucks here.
What you said is absolute.
This is why I'm seeing this law as 'Absurd'.
I remember seeing a see that prohibits the selling of pirated cds and right below the sign there were stalls selling cds. haha. Now this law will just rouse them catholics and other sensitive organizations for a few weeks then they'll forget the issue until the news brings loli to their tv sets.
Ignorance Is A Bliss I'll tell you that.
I hate it that when the elections come politicians decide they want to give a fuck about the country
another stupid issue for politicians to use in their campaigns for office.
Why do we always look at the useless problems and ignore important ones.
"... said the Internet which is used for gaining knowledge is being used by some as a medium to gratify sexual desire."
NO WAY! How dare they?
I agree, the internet is for porn.
Someone has to teach them what is Internet for.
So much for making more important laws. . .
bah...
screw the law.
they just implemented that since they cannot get money out of hentai.
DX
Philippines? Isn't that the country were we get are house maids?
Chip Tsao, is dat you?? XD
well he's got that intsik accent.
yes, that's where you get the OFWs that you people rape and abuse.
Geez! That place has been such a mess since Day 1. The MAJOR problem with that place is that the government has been corrupt for ages. Yes, this kind of move is made so they can look good, but actually doing SOMETHING for the common folk is virtually non-existant. I'm not surprised if this law is passed (in fact, it will since the current President's just as corrupt and looking for more "Pogi Points"), but knowing the street smarts of the Filipinos there, they can easily continue the trend of selling hentai, including, lolicon, with little worry from being arrested from authorities (considering the state of the economy there). Those who possess it are smart enough to make sure the authorities don't find out.
whats next on the political agenda. medical assistance? nah, how about economic and financial aid? eh.. we dont need that. porn? fuck we gotta stop that shit. and wait what theyre making imaginary children do what? thats despicable and mortifying. how dare they mind their own business in the the privacy of thir own homes. <<<< true government documents.
aw c'mon! there only a few kids here in the philippines that are fap worthy!
we better join forces and blow up those fags at the church!
WHO'S WITH ME!!!??
Wow.
>>>>“Once the picture of child victim is flashed either on the Internet or video clip, the picture is open for the entire world to see. The child loses his or her privacy and innocence which can never be restored,” Antonino-Custodio said.<<<<
Umm, did the bill refer the "child" to be fictional or real? Coz I dont see any real Mio yet to be found.
I wish there is tho xD
They could just blurt out the truth that they find these stuffs to be disgusting, rather than blaming it for child pornography. Then again, thats politics.
So let's see. Politicians, Catholic and feminist fanatic organizations made hentai illegal.
So basically thieves, little boy molesters and lesbians are against hentai.
Correction!
Thieves, little boy molesters and ugly women are against hentai.
you hit the nail on the head anon. we do have lesbians on this site that enjoy hentai just as much as you do. (hopefully theyre hot too, or id be rather disappointed)
Oh, bullshuit.
You get those in all countries. The Philippines just happens to be the featured country in this article.
To the polichickens in charge of the Philippines:
Good luck getting the money to build all the new shiny prisons and guards to watch all your mass influx of criminals.
Dead duck laws are dead ducks.
all those comments...
does no one think of the poor imaginary children?!
they're all trying to be "cool" by jumping into the they-ban-loli-so-i-hate-them bandwagon.
meh?
so this suddenly comes up? wait, its almost 2010... I think I'm recalling something... an event where there would be funny advertisements on TV... advertisements you only see during this time... hmm, what was it again? E.. e... elec...
ahh!
ERECTION! I mean election.
Seriously, The time for election in the Philippines is like April Fool's Day! Gov't officials suddenly make serious statements that will not come true. Well, sure, in this case, it will definitely be approved.. but will it be strictly implemented?
I would like to subscribe to an RSS feed to this law to see if it will get implemented.
Seriously, The time for election AROUND THE WORLD is like April Fool’s Day! Gov’t officials suddenly make serious statements that will not come true.
honestly what country do you live in that has a "productive government" seriously on earth thats an oxymoron.
no.
The false statements that most Filipino gov't officials make are OVER 9000!
I am from the Philippines and I'm personally dissatisfied with this thing.
I mean really, ARE YOU GOING TO CLASSIFY Hentai as LOLICON PORN ? I mean come on you're watching moving pixels when you watch hentai and you're watching people when you watch LOLICON PORN there's a fucking distinct difference between the two.
This is just sad...
It shows how stupid our government has become...I'm sorry to anyone who had the displeasure of reading the mistakes that our country has made on our lives and I'm sorry for the ruckus we're currently causing now.
Fun Filipino Fact: There are still otaku hater's in the phillipines and no they're not just your ordinary otaku hater, they're the ones who upheld this law and they're the ones who don't understand anything because they're either too ignorant to see what otaku culture really is or too stupid to use anything that's more technologically advanced than the humble calculator.
Anyone more than 40 is considered a techno-newbie in this third world environment.
It says 'in any form', and even in writing. Fucking gay.
Morons running the government at their best. :D
Read about this in another forum, and my sentiments about such censorships has not changed...Putting real and imagination on the same level is already a stupid thing to do. Governments joining this 'Loli(Hentai/Anime in general) Banning Bandwagon' are desperate for pubic acceptance. They can't make bold statements like 'We will bring down the abuse on children' or 'We will protect more children, by targeting actual offenders'. They all pretty much fail at protecting actual children, so next best thing is to target an object and criminalize people for liking such materials, way of association. This way it looks like they 'are' doing something, but clearly they aren't (unfortunately the uneducated moralists will believe otherwise) by using biased and easily misinterpreted reports i.e. NSPCC finding correlations. Anyone knows (well those who aren't easily sheeped by mass media) correlations does not equal a cause. That's like saying every murderer caught have all watched Simpsons or has Saw DVD. Therefore that is the cause...it's ridiculous or all black people carrying a bag running to public transport are terrorists. We know how that went. Not to mention police taking advantage of their power to attack harmless people, as in the case with the case with Ian Tomlinson here in UK. Not like it's the only country though.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/12/ian-tomlinson-g20-police-verdict
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/e.stm
It's ironic, they say all the cameras are used to protect us by targeting suspects of crime, then who is going to protect us from police of misconduct? When they can easily manipulate CCTV to not show such events. Plus now that taking photgraphs of police on duty apparently can be used for terrorist activities now...
Also to note, UK has not set in the ban just quite yet. It is still going through the House of Lords, if by God the Lords are smart enough, they may reject the Bill for it or at the very least have it sent back to find a better ammendment...but seeing how laws are being passed with no grounds of actual harm like clockwork all around I worry where this world is heading. Where's Guy Fawkes and V when you need them?
hmm this reminds me of the line: "Who watches the watchmen?"
My fellow kababayans, don't worry I'm sure Rozen Aso will not allow such a bill to be passed.
Anybody got a pic of the guy who proposed the bill? Just in case I see him somewhere so I can kick him in the nuts.
> Two feminazis and one guy you mean.
And the bill was then approved by the majority of thieves, child rapists, racketeers and drug lords posing as congressmen. :|
So much for the Phailippines.
Wish Death Note is real huh?
...feminists? OMG! MikeUSA was right!!! ><
As much as I feel frustrated with the level of tampon-burning going on now with lolicon-bashing, I'm not giving that verbose prick the pleasure of an increased number of site visits. He's wrong also, imo.
It's not feminists that are the primary rage point: It's ignorant, yammering, mindless, vapid, right-wing, pro-life, moralfag feminists who REALLY need their heads adjusted from their inverted positions in their nether posterior regions.
/rant
The situation is sooo frustrating, you have to really lol over the ineptitude of the people in the middle of it. *facepalm*
Well, I find his ramblings worth of EPIC LULZ! :D
another reason to leave my country
I've always had many reasons of why I want to leave this country... Now I have another reason of why I wanna leave.
....
Im a candidate for 6-12 years in prison
FUCK
hope strike witches is real so they can put some lead to those who are against lolis
btw Im a pinoy
Wow, I was actually considering retiring to the Philippines after I had saved up a couple hundred thousand dollars. Too bad for them and their economy that I'll no longer consider their country as my retirement destination.
Don't worry friend, di ka kawalan
by just seeing the word Philippines
the Flip invasion has begun
this law would have been perfectly logical had it only referred to pix and film of REAL child pornography instead of hentai and text.
Don't worry BTW if you live outside of Davao del sur Philippine laws are not enforced. Prostitution is illegal there to but that never stopped ANYONE!
Also they kill meth dealers, which I actually like. It's not that bad other then that although manila is a hell hole
The laws are not enforce anywhere in the Philippines. And some people are more comfortable in hell.
are filipinos really into loli??
they'd rather fap on big titted bitches
You must be lost brother
Philippines?
i dont fcking care bout it LOL
btw... they r juz maid aren't they?
Oh crap I better make sure nobody sees my mobile phone, psp, and pc and burned dvds. Sometimes it sucks here in my home country but hey there are lots of good things here too to compensate for it.
Agreed my friend.
It's almost as bad as the time when a malaysian newspaper erroneously labelled cartoon porn as "Anime"
http://kurogane.animeblogger.net/2006/01/15/anime-animated-sex-part-2-kudos-to-the-star/
http://forum.saiyaman.info/index.php?showtopic=8860&st=60
... Madness! Animation does not actually harm anyone! If you want to ban something, GO FOR LIVE ACTION PORN VIDEOS! Hey Guess what? The ones who made this bill are actuallly women. Go figure.
P.S.
Hentai isn't anime porn. It's America that steretyped it so.
No women or children were harmed in making these animations. Just ban all porn if that is the case Damn IT! Real life porn is legal 18-20+ years old? The problem here is those retards are F**kin ignorant and just rides on the wave on these kinds of things.
gah.. I'm a Filipino.. and I have some friends who are feminist activists.. Gabriela
My respect for our politicians here in the Philippines just got buried several miles below the Earth's crust.
Anyone reading the supposed law clearly doesn't understand anything about Japanese visual culture. It even mixes up terms so much so that an average Filipino otaku would raise a brow.
We need some kind of help here to teach these uninitiated "baka~yaro"s that the word loli is too general and hentai is another different matter.
What's the chance to elect otaku politicians in 2010?
Lets see if some otaku dude will run for congress or senate, and lets give him a all out support. but then again, its just wishful thinking.
damn....
http://aldwinarcena.multiply.com/journal/item/3/THE_PHILIPPINE_GOVERNMENT_HAS_FINALLY_REACHED_THE_END_OF_OF_DEEVOLUTION
You should have just zapped their brains with your Contractor power..
Gawwd Whats wrong with this WORLD Who would want to BAN Lolitas!!
If they can do that Why not ban PORN too!!
Madness! Animation does not harm anyone. They should aim for the live action one for one thing it is in real life. Oh by the way... Stupid Americans stereotyped hentai as anime porn and everyone just fuckin accepted it. Guess what? These officals are women. Right now it sounds and feels like they are going to ostracize anime and their fans like Jews because here in the Philippines, lets just say most people understand that Hentai=Anime generally.
P.S.
Greeting on the ruined country of Azadistan=Philippines
Amen and Puck Jeah!!!
I mean What the Puck is up with these bitches? Ip this really happens, we can no longer have anime!
You know what, they can take their bill and shove it up their ASS! This is ANIME, baby!
Azadistan? LOL If you come to think of it. The Philippines really is like Azadistan in a way. Ignorant and self destructive. Sad Really. Fools can't see right. *sigh*
This is blasphemy! This is madness!
Such stupidity
Hentai is not child porn, its a very wide genre, it pains me to see that these idiots are the ones running the countries. I must say i love lolicon hentai, and it not right for these fuckers to think we gonna go and rape kids, mother fuckers.
Plus is day and age, as i observe my 13 turning 14 YO cousin, this girl is a complete slut, she want to get le cock, but doesnt know how to, is it not hypocritical of society to turn a blind eye on these changes to girls?
Just look at some image boards spammed with teens taking pics of themselves, the times are changing good politicians, and its maybe time to rethink the "moral" society is founded on.
The lack of understanding of what is and the appreciation of it.. makes it pretty unjustifiable :/ they are just drawings, oh well the internet is there.. "The internet is for!!?"
This from the country that has a guerrilla organization operationg in it called MILF . . . Kind of ironic isn't it?
*absolute facepalm*
Good God! Which vapid local star will they hire as a "face" for this bill? Edu Manzano doing some ant-piracy raids was bad enough.
its a good thing the philippine police are bunch of slobs and as we say it "TAMAD!!!"
ITT Moral fags from the 80's and 90s still alive.
“Once the picture of child victim is flashed either on the Internet or video clip, the picture is open for the entire world to see. The child loses his or her privacy and innocence which can never be restored..”
Wow.. just wow... (Unexisted) Child protection at its best. And i'm still amused how Phillipines RL child modelling photographs can still be seen loitering around the internet.
I'll say we Lolicons should each carry firearms so they'll leave us alone, just like how they refused to cope problems related to terrorism and violence.
Woot! Speak the truth!
When I saw this, I wanted to sue the proposers. Really.
People will take through the streets.
loli's also banned in sweden
I love the line of that politician:
"the Internet which is used for gaining knowledge is being used by some as a medium to gratify sexual desire."
NOw there's somethingthe Catholic Church and Feminists can hate together--sexual desire!!!
Bigotry can ACTUALLY BRING PEOPLE WHO HATE EACH OTHER TOGETHER! What will this universe come up with next?!