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: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Tuesday March 10 2020, @12:07AM (3 children)
One easy thing would be to change the costumes and anatomy slightly for release to the western market. I mean, it's drawing maybe a total of 5 lines a little differently, if you keep the eyes the same.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Grishnakh on Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:07AM
One easy thing would be to change the costumes and anatomy slightly for release to the western market.
This sounds like a lot of work actually, for the hand-drawn stuff. To make it suitable for the American market, they'd need to make the characters 2-3 times fatter.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @05:02AM (1 child)
For starters, that's quite a bit of effort in an animated medium.
But that ignores the other issue -- it's literally censorship of art to fit a government's ideal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:12PM
why not, the powers in charge (governmental and commercial) have decided the first amendment was a terrible idea and we shouldn't have it anymore. Speech is controlled six ways to Sunday. drawings are really just another form of speech.