Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[BestBoy]

shitstorm

I wouldn't worry too much. It'll blow over at some point.

 

[braixenlover]

I have to ask...
Is this what happened to Crunchyroll?
Trying to go legit so they're cleaning house?

idk the exact story of crunchyroll but yes crunchyroll WAS a pirate site originally and then they eventually decided to start paying for the content and making themselves a paid service legally.

 

[furryadminhypocrite]

Love is War or similar isn't.

loli romance.

Why are you reading these if you are an adult? critical consuming? shaking your head after every pantsu shot? lol

 

[yogurtman250]

I wouldn't worry too much. It'll blow over at some point.

It'll probably last a few days, but those few days will feel like hell lowkey 😭

 

[Angry_Panda]

Completely and utterly false.

The jurisdiction of a server is where the server is located, NOT where the company is located.

By your logic, if a company is located in America, but they own a server in Saudi Arabia, that server doesn't need to follow Saudi Arabia laws.

But that's incorrect, the server is in Saudi Arabia, so it must follow Saudi Arabia laws, even though the company is not in Saudi Arabia.

The same logic applies in reverse. If a company is in Saudi Arabia, but they own a server in America, that server follows American laws, not Saudi Arabia laws.

You have zero understanding of jurisdiction, or international laws.

I did not say they were exempt from laws with jurisdiction over their physical servers. However, as a UK entity, they are answerable to the government of the UK as well.

 

[TGN]

hopefully you sitting back and grabbing popcorn at least? relaxing with the cat is nice but you gotta get some food for the show

The cat prevents me from moving lol. Just watching some anime on the side while I refresh the page every few minutes.

 

[furryadminhypocrite]

oop
"handled case by case basis"?
clearly you don't "know when you see it"

 

[Pauan]

I did not say they were exempt from laws with jurisdiction over their physical servers. However, as a UK entity, they are answerable to the government of the UK as well.

The UK has no jurisdiction outside of the UK.

The UK cannot pass laws that affect servers outside of the UK. That would violate sovereignty.

The UK tried to force 4chan to add in digital ID verification, and 4chan told them to go screw themself. 4chan won, the UK lost.

Servers that are outside of the UK cannot be held answerable to the UK government, end of discussion.

Even in a bizarre hypothetical world where the UK tries to violate international law and enforce UK law outside of the UK... MangaDex can just leave the UK. It's not difficult to just move the company to another country.

Companies do that all the time. Sony's PlayStation division moved from Japan to California. Companies are international, moving is not difficult.

So this has nothing to do with the law (UK or otherwise), it is entirely 100% MangaDex's choice. They are not being forced into anything.

 

[braixenlover]

oop
"handled case by case basis"?
clearly you don't "know when you see it"

case by case basis when it comes to "staff discretion" i've been in enough communities to know it just means "if i like it, it stays, if not, its gone" type of energy. if this was truly about "the law" it wouldn't be a "case by case" and would instead just be blanket across the board to set the standard for whats allowed and whats not.

 

[braixenlover]

The UK has no jurisdiction outside of the UK.

The UK cannot pass laws that affect servers outside of the UK. That would violate sovereignty.

The UK tried to force 4chan to add in digital ID verification, and 4chan told them to go screw themself. 4chan won, the UK lost.

Servers that are outside of the UK cannot be held answerable to the UK government, end of discussion.

Even in a bizarre hypothetical world where the UK tries to violate international law and enforce UK law outside of the UK... MangaDex can just leave the UK. It's not difficult to just move the company to another country.

Companies do that all the time. Sony's PlayStation division moved from Japan to California. Companies are international, moving is not difficult.

So this has nothing to do with the law (UK or otherwise), it is entirely 100% MangaDex's choice. They are not being forced into anything.

to be fair with the 4chan situation, 4chan does NOT have any type of server, headquarters, or people in the UK and is purely based in the USA. i still dont think the UK should be able to do shit to them, but from the sounds of it, mangadex is registered UK but has servers located elsewhere, which would imply to some degree they have to follow both.

 

[Archimedes5000]

Honestly, I don't see much issue. Piracy sites are not as "underground" as people make them out to be, you could find dozens in minutes. The whining is for nothing.

MangaDex is not just a random aggregator, it's a scanlation site.

But yeah this site is as good as dead since the "Great Purge", many groups moved to the few alternatives left or went back to self-hosted sites

 

[princedizzytoon]

Never thought I would see the day MD shoot themselves in the foot, we live in such interesting times

 

[Pwnage2demax]

Stop the misinformation. Titles being removed depict sexual activity between characters that are minors, either in appearance (handled on a case-by-case basis) or confirmed in the dialogue. It's about law and compliance with it. If you jerk it off to little kids, go and do it elsewhere; there are sites that specialise in that.

"Law and compliance" - Mod of a piracy site

Wisdom has been chasing you (and a few other mods) but you's have always been faster..

 

[alaneil]

Site owner is a tourist. There are better places to read manga in 2026 anyway.

 

[Kev-Ab]

Stop the misinformation. Titles being removed depict sexual activity between characters that are minors, either in appearance (handled on a case-by-case basis) or confirmed in the dialogue. It's about law and compliance with it. If you jerk it off to little kids, go and do it elsewhere; there are sites that specialise in that.

Shut up schizo tourist.
"muh little kids" bro just admit you are so terminally online you see cartoon characters as children because your only interaction with real kids has been your cousin's sons in thanksgiving because you are so terminally online no one would stay with you in a long term relationship.
Lolicon is far from a representation of what a real kid is, you must be one of those that see an spicy art and goes running instantly to some wiki to check if that horny pic making your wee wet makes you a good person or a bad person, please people like you should fuck off and watch top ten marvel universe moments for entertainment and laugh at the most mid ass references ever.
I'm tired of complete clowns that think like that ruining everything and giving nothing in return, people like you who care more about optics than everything else is why star wars sequels sucked in every single aspect, people like you are why JJK being the middest shonen in a while is so big, people like you are the retards saying "just watch porn lmao" because god forbid a work of writing and art tackles a wide margin of topics, people like you is why professional translation in otaku products are not getting any better despite having much more resources than 20 years ago, people like you don't see anime manga or videogames as art but as a personality checklist to fulfill something that I can't understand at all because I'm not a narcissistic egomaniac and people like you are why societies are degrading, because it doesn't matter the facts of things what only matters to you is looking like "the good guy" against "the bad guy" as your objective in life.
But, also the people enabling the behaviour of clowns like this are as evil or as ignorant, and the line between those 2 is so thin I could probably see how one leads to the other, you can ban me for saying the TRUTH or whatever I enjoyed this site services for so long your paycheck (if you have any lmao) partially came from my views surely, but ok go ahead transform manga and anime in the next marvel DISNEY if you want or you know, or as I said so you could go and read american comics with their baby formula approved shit no one cares or buys anymore.

 

[yogurtman250]

Shut up schizo tourist.
"muh little kids" bro just admit you are so terminally online you see cartoon characters as children because your only interaction with real kids has been your cousin's sons in thanksgiving because you are so terminally online no one would stay with you in a long term relationship.
Lolicon is far from a representation of what a real kid is, you must be one of those that see an spicy art and goes running instantly to some wiki to check if that horny pic making your wee wet makes you a good person or a bad person, please people like you should fuck off and watch top ten marvel universe moments for entertainment and laugh at the most mid ass references ever.
I'm tired of complete clowns that think like that ruining everything and giving nothing in return, people like you who care more about optics than everything else is why star wars sequels sucked in every single aspect, people like you are why JJK being the middest shonen in a while is so big, people like you are the retards saying "just watch porn lmao" because god forbid a work of writing and art tackles a wide margin of topics, people like you is why professional translation in otaku products are not getting any better despite having much more resources than 20 years ago, people like you don't see anime manga or videogames as art but as a personality checklist to fulfill something that I can't understand at all because I'm not a narcissistic egomaniac and people like you are why societies are degrading, because it doesn't matter the facts of things what only matters to you is looking like "the good guy" against "the bad guy" as your objective in life.
But, also the people enabling the behaviour of clowns like this are as evil or as ignorant, and the line between those 2 is so thin I could probably see how one leads to the other, you can ban me for saying the TRUTH or whatever I enjoyed this site services for so long your paycheck (if you have any lmao) partially came from my views surely, but ok go ahead transform manga and anime in the next marvel DISNEY if you want or you know, you could go american comics with their baby formula approved shit no one cares about anymore.

holy text wall

 

[Basic_human]

Never thought I would see the day MD shoot themselves in the foot, we live in such interesting times

On the thigh specifically, we can't move on without addressing the wound

 

[EtherealNeko]

Jumping back here because my previous post had a sentence that was poorly worded and came off as too much of a personal attack or moral grandstanding. I also didn't provide enough context on the content being removed, so that's on me.

I've been reading some of the replies, and thank you for voicing your opinions and concerns, whether in this thread or elsewhere. Users want clarification on the removals, so please find it below.

We were made aware of content that goes against our content policy, specifically clause 3.1.1 regarding underage characters in pornographic settings. The content that was removed, and some content still being reviewed, includes entries labelled Mature, with characters that are engaging in sexual intercourse and either:

• They are clearly very young in appearance, and the content does not confirm that they are adults.
• The content itself confirms that they are under the age of 18.

Nothing else is being examined at this time. We're currently exploring options to retain the title entry and other non-infringing metadata, but for now, we need to proceed with the removal.

 

[yogurtman250]

Jumping back here because my previous post had a sentence that was poorly worded and came off as too much of a personal attack or moral grandstanding. I also didn't provide enough context on the content being removed, so that's on me.

I've been reading some of the replies, and thank you for voicing your opinions and concerns, whether in this thread or elsewhere. Users want clarification on the removals, so please find it below.

We were made aware of content that goes against our content policy, specifically clause 3.1.1 regarding underage characters in pornographic settings. The content that was removed, and some content still being reviewed, includes entries labelled Mature, with characters that are engaging in sexual intercourse and either:

• They are clearly very young in appearance, and the content does not confirm that they are adults.
• The content itself confirms that they are under the age of 18.

Nothing else is being examined at this time. We're currently exploring options to retain the title entry and other non-infringing metadata, but for now, we need to proceed with the removal.

Oh hey never thought you'd post here again.

...was the first post rogue or were you told to post it?

 

[jmic]

First I have been here since the first week MangaDex was online. I came here from the root of "Dex". I have often referred to MangaDex as "we". You perhaps cannot understand how painful that is becoming as the community is pushed aside by people who can't tell the difference between scanlation and pirating commercial translations, don't bother you're wrong. I assume that yes the current removals are about monetization. Two things. I became suspicious of such when after the DMCA nightmare I heard that Namicomi was going to manage MD. Oh goody. Then there is the fact that I have to live with Add placeholders all the time and the "guilt" tracer in the header. There have been zero actual adds since the AI crap in the fall. So a move to "sanitize" doesn't surprise me. The servers must roll. But we the community deserve to be informed. Not some offhand flip and dismissive thing like we have gotten both here and on Discord. I believe that "we" are owed an explanation. Not when someone gets around to it but to be brought into the fold so that if I am right about the above that we can understand and support. As for the question of porn. I really don't much care about it. The agnolishment that people have sex is fine but I don't want to watch. Loli porn is yes simply cringe to me. If we need to have it gone I can see that. I also think it is a slippery slope. That said I will probably be here riding the bomb down as long as I can hat in the air.