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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 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, @11:51PM (5 children)
Yes! Hooters must be banned too! Or at least reformed: the new uniform shall be SACK CLOTH with a piece of old rope as a belt! And thick black framed glasses so we can all admire how SMART the waitresses (excuse me, "servers") are. 😍
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @12:03AM (4 children)
Sack cloth? Sorry, some pervert could burn a hole through that with the male gaze, or get off on having downtrodden servers attending to their needs.
All food must be served by conveyor belts, drones, or genderless robots.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @12:10AM
Japan's on that too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @12:53AM (2 children)
Said the parent:
"All food must be served by conveyor belts, drones, or genderless robots."
As an engineer, such a marvel of automation would give me a HUGER hard on. Your attempts to curtail my erotic reactions are not working. :-(
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:18AM (1 child)
"All food must be served by conveyor belts, drones, or genderless robots."
As an engineer, such a marvel of automation would give me a HUGER hard on.
Then you just need to go visit Japan, where this stuff is reality (well, the conveyor belt part at least). There's a restaurant chain in Tokyo called Sushiro where you sit at a bar, and either pick dishes off the conveyor belt, or if you want something fresher or not on the belt, you use the tablet computer in front of you to order it. Then it's put on another conveyor belt by the chef, and goes automatically directly to your seat.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @02:44PM
i live in a suburb of chicago and the run down sushi joint has had that for years. so much that sometimes the conveyor belt at the local strip mall sushi place is disabled so they can pull something that smells like it shouldn't have been left unrefrigerated for very long that got smooshed in the rollers due to a careless customer.
the place is called sushi train, and it's one of several locations.
the last time i visited, they did not have tablets, but they did have chefs that listened directly to what patrons wanted to order.