What does it mean to "promote child exploitation"? When it's figurines that have been sold for years but now violate Amazon's statutes about promoting child exploitation which resulted in listings being removed. Chuck Gaffney has run a successful Amazon store for years selling anime-related products, up until recently when Amazon started cracking down on anything that could be perceived as "promoting child exploitation".
While it can be difficult for online retailers to represent themselves as selling genuine merchandise — meaning reputation means a lot — this type of behavior from the market owner is very discouraging. In response, the seller blames a "neopuritan crusade" against anime figures.
The characters at the center of this disagreement are: Hatsune Miku and KaitÅ Tenshi Twin Angel.
It's a wonder that anything anime-related survives importation to the US from Japan.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 09 2020, @09:33PM
As much as we can believe hearsay of hearsay... the described violence seems to have been quite effective and as a bonus (at least as local cultural norms are concerned), probably nobody other than the groper on the train was bothered by it. I bet that hand was not going anywhere else for a while.
It seems even gropers in Japan have the wherewithal to not make noises on the train that would make the people (at least the ones not being groped) around them uncomfortable.