When in doubt, it's always the jews.
It's never actually about morals with this stuff. It's money, always money.
Sucks pretty badly. They're requiring quite a bit more strict censorship now. I think a lot of creators wouldn't pass this new standard depending on how strictly it will be enforced and the quality for us consumers will just degrade with even more obtrusive censorship.
Considering this seems to be only about censorship of genitals, which isn't even really a thing in the West I'm not sure I see a connection here. Would be at least really weird if that was their angle.
Really bad that this is happening in Fantia space, have dozen of subscribed artists in there and they have posted their own annoucement. Some of them will private/delete old videos, because they have to modify all of them in 4 days of time, basically their whole collection just to get those videos back up. Say 300+ past posts and have to do it in 4 days is ridiculous. No wonder this pissed the hell out of them and are considering leaving the platform.
some of the artists mentioned in the posts about the law and they are not blaming Fantia because it is legal matter to the company but they are still pissed about it.
Those who have also Patreon account would have the option of just switching to Patreon to avoid the censorship, but for those who uses Fantia as a sole platform and have many video posts, it will be difficult.
You're talking about a country where porn is still technically illegal, which is why all JAVs are 2 hours long and censorship still exists in such abundance. This swing does suck but it's not actually surprising. The anti-"obscenity" forces in Japan have always existed and always been powerful, they were just biding their time until their next push. There's absolutely no reason to blame foreigners for this.
A bit out of topic but here's the original article in case anyone's wondering (japanese obv): https://spotlight.fantia.jp/news/260519_guideline
Honestly I had no idea it was that bad.
they definitely have some blame though, i'd imagine the whole censorship bullshit the EU has done and what the US is trying to do enabled the japanese censorship crowd to gain more leeway to actually start pushing companies into stricter rules, though obviously theres not much actual foreign involvement in this case
Isn't it to avoid legal restrictions under Article 175 of the Japanese Penal Code, "Distribution of Obscene Materials, etc."?
