There is a lot at stake for Japan
Steam and itch.io “mustn't succumb to unjust pressure with no legal basis,” Japan free speech organization urges amidst mass censorship of games
Submitted 11 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
This could crush their main export.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 11 months ago
Japan???
Tentacles are fine but never a penis Japan?
Damn yo
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Daimyo!
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Japan VS. Australia
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 11 months ago
you know you fucked up when the most conservative government that censors everything tells you that you went too far.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
it’s an association, not the government.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 11 months ago
true, but the fact that it is even allowed to exist in Japan in the first place says a lot.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Take a quick look at DLsite and Pixiv, Japan hardly censors anything other than pixelation of specific body parts. If anything, it feels like the west is heading towards much more intense censorship.
ImproperKeming@ani.social 11 months ago
They take what censorship they do have incredibly seriously, though. To the point that many Japanese companies stopped selling uncensored versions of their games in the West because their domestic audience was using VPNs to buy them and that was enough to get the government on their asses.
Even the possibility of Japanese users bypassing censorship was enough to put them in a worse situation than the West is currently in with payment processors.