Popular arts website PIXIV announced that certain content will be restricted on the site, which include (but are not limited to): "sexual exploitation of a minor, incest, bestiality, rape (or any other non-consensual sexual behavior)" and "non-consensual mutilation". consent of a person or body part".
Contents are prohibited from transacting through credit card networks, which affects BOOTH, pixivFANBOX and pixiv Requests services. The company also asked users to check their content and remove anything that fits the description by December 15, when the new Terms of Service take effect.
The move is clearly a way to maintain transactions with Western credit card companies that are increasingly pressuring Internet companies in general to remove content related to pornography or adult entertainment, and have already refused to make payments to sites like Pornhub, Patreon and OnlyFans, which had to adapt or remove their content to remain operational.
In recent years, with the expansion of Japanese culture such as anime, manga and derivative works, arriving in more and more countries precisely because of the internet, Japan has slowly begun to succumb to the Political Correctness of the West, despite the most skeptics believed that such a thing was "impossible".
For those who don't know, Japan is one of the few countries that defends unrestricted freedom of thought, and works of art and culture in general have never had many restrictions, so even heavier works that in the West may be considered inappropriate can be created, even that with some rules. But Western Political Correctness, on the contrary, wants to prevent almost any work from existing by the smallest detail using some schizophrenic terminology.
PIXIV will now have to worry, as the action will have an impact on its users and creators who will certainly go to other networks that can continue their productions, just like what happened with Tumblr, and there the result was not good at all.
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