Creators in the West are no doubt familiar with having their works denied because of content deemed “inappropriate” by the platform in question, which in turn is usually at the demand of credit card companies, and it seems this grotesque act is now being carried out more frequently on Japanese creators, as one individual will have their creation changed due to a credit card company complaining about its “prohibited expressions”.
A generous individual thankfully provided a translation of the Japanese mangaka/doujinshika’s words, who explained they were sent a notice from eroge platform Getchu saying certain words need to be replaced in their work as the credit card company learned it contains “prohibited expressions”.
The user in question provided examples of words that have to be changed to something more tame:
“Chastisement” is more referring to “physical beatings” and “night crawling” is actually “yobai”, or a term used for sneaking into a woman’s bedroom, sometimes for sex; bestiality is not allowed whatsoever.
Perhaps the most important part of this incident is the statement from the creator saying that Getchu is the only platform where they have received such a complaint, hopefully meaning such censorship is not yet widespread.
This is not the first time Japanese mangaka have been forced to censor or alter their work, as the mangaka for Jinrouki Winvurga previously complained about growing restrictions in the manga industry.
Similarly, Japanese creators have previously censored their works due to nonsensical complaints from Westerners, such as with the Project Sekai anime Puchiseka, which removed an episode due to claims of “blackface”.
The Final Fantasy VI pixel remaster still censored the Celes beating scene in the game and also altered the one-handed salute (even for Japanese versions).
That’s pathetic, especially for an eroge platform. If it’s going to censor words of genres then it completely loses its purpose. If the state was useful there would be laws to protect businesses from credit card company interference.
They were probably threatened of being banned from using payment processors if they don’t comply which is reason enough to sue those credit card companies for being anti-consumer and look for alternative payment processors, the problem is that no one is talking about it or taking it seriously at the moment because they don’t realize that it wont simply end with porn censorship.
SHUT UP GOYIM!!!
CRITICIZING CENSORSHIP IS ANTISEMITISM!!!!!
f♥♥k off already moron!
And defending censorship in all terms is to be inhuman garbage.
America and their woke SJW banks really need to get nuked already
Notice it’s only Japanese art that gets bullied by Western services. If it’s a big Western company or celebrity they can r♥♥e real babies and nobody cares.
Sadly not true. Credit card companies/payment providers have been saying what can and can’t be sold in the west for quite a while now with porn being the prime target. Japan actually escaped for quite a while.
Thing is, it’s rarely spoken about because at the moment, it does not affect the vast majority of users but it will sooner or later as more and more things are prohibited.
Yeah but with these fascists they are censoring the people that don’t adhere to using their art as a propaganda piece for their child grooming babyraper globohomo agenda, for foreign entities youcan interpret this as outright discrimination, protectionism, posdibly economic war.
I need to see foreigners stand up to ZOGerica and start throttling and gimping their botnets and “”services”” the same way they are doing to their companies through disloyal competition.
Pretty much if you want to do anything that defies the West’s Imperialistic practices, make sure your money isn’t in their banks.
Don’t side with that WEF manlet shill but use this manufactured war as a learning experience to not trust pozzed western banks
poor victim Putin. his innocence was betrayed!
That would be nice, but it’s also unrealistic. Ignoring the weaknesses of cryptocurrency entirely, did we forget what happened the last time a country got upset with central banks and rejected them?
Freedom on the internet wasn’t given. It was free to begin with due to zero regulations on what you say online. It’s only regulated based on how popular it is how big the community becomes.
Kinda like how the dark web is basically free, but where the shadier content is.
West or East are political garbage terms. Corporatism is the problem.
Considering how volatile crypto is, that they have absolutely no value outside being traded for regulated cash, and if there IS a major disaster like the banks failing or world war or even one of those major solar flares we’re due for that the last time it hit earth it set telegraph wires on fire (the second would lead to major cyber attacks and the third would destroy the majority of electronics on Earth including those hard drives you have your crypto on) crypto would cease to exist…it’s not that great an option.
You do realize banks store all the data of your bank account in a fucking hard drive too