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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 Kaitō Tenshi Twin Angel.
It's a wonder that anything anime-related survives importation to the US from Japan.
(Score: 2, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday March 09 2020, @09:51PM (12 children)
They're not even doing it right. Have you seen the Halloween costumes marketed to 9 year old girls lately? Compared to those, Kaitō Tenshi Twin Angel is Victorian-era modesty.
This isn't the first bumblefuck thing Amazon has done, like when they banned Confederate Navy flags on the whims of Grand Emperor Baraq Hussein Soetoro but buying Mein Kampf and Turner Diaries was totally okay.
What probably happened was some dick-kneading pervert Californian Democrat in congress wanted to prove how much of a pervert he wasn't and whispered into Amazon's ear, perhaps with a little tongue.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 09 2020, @10:00PM
Huh? They actually SELL the Turner Diary? I downloaded from one of those "scene" sites, years ago, and presumed that no one would actually publish the book. Never even looked. Imagine that . . . some of our more liberal friends should read the damned thing. They run around calling normal people Nazis and fascists, because they haven't actually read anything that is Nazi or fascist.
(Score: 5, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Monday March 09 2020, @11:41PM (10 children)
Why would you assume it was a Democrat pervert when it is way more likely to be a Republican?
If child porn is involved it will always be a Christian. That is just a law of nature.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 09 2020, @11:51PM
DrPizza and other male feminists beg to differ.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 09 2020, @11:55PM (5 children)
Hollywood would like a word with you.
Sexual perversion is more Jewish than Christian, apparently.
Muslims of course have everyone else beat by a long shot, but usually that's in their own countries like Afghanistan.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:26AM (4 children)
Are you serious?
It's almost like you've never heard of the Catholic Church. Or Jehovah's Witnesses apparently.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:34AM (1 child)
Yes, cuz those Jehovah's Witnesses are total anal sluts, as we all know.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @06:10AM
More like Jehovah's Witnesses have a disproportionate number of sexual abusers in positions of authority, like with the Catholics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:22PM (1 child)
I will definitely grant you the Catholic Church. The homosexual pedophile situation is however peculiar to their denomination. It's completely because priests are not allowed to marry. Catholicism is not all of Christianity though.
And people on this site are still not acknowledging the Hollywood problem which in recent years has had the lid blown off it of passing around children at sex parties. People must acknowledge this. is it anti-Semitic to do so and this is why people won't touch it? Their control is apparently strong even here.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday March 10 2020, @07:44PM
The Jehovah's Witnesses treat child sexual abuse in much the same way that the Catholic Church does, including requiring "two witnesses" and covering it up if they can.
You know as well as I do that when some politician is found in a hotel room with a rent-boy and a pile of coke, it is always some anti-gay, hard-core Christian Republican.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:12AM (2 children)
As far as our national politicians go, sex scandals cross the aisle. However, when it's a Democrat, it's usually about an extramarital affair (or blowjob). But when it's a Republican, it's something like playing footsie in the men's restroom stalls, or having gay sex with a Congressional page boy.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Tuesday March 10 2020, @11:59AM (1 child)
Plenty of high-ranking dems visited Epstein island.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:31PM
Good point. But I think we can assume there that the Dems were engaging in hetero sex with Epstein's trafficked women. Whenever the sex scandal is gay, it's always Republicans, and they're the party that is generally anti-gay.