Which of those jurisdictions are relevant to MD? It's not illegal in the US.
Australia, UK, Canada to name a few.
And again, what about the removed series has anything to do with underage characters? It's been mentioned a few times, but the series in question is about adults, it's the tags that were incorrect.
The stray cat girl series contained a high-school girl, which was ambiguous enough to be included. I'm not aware of any official content confirming her as over 18 and the scanlator did not provide any when I spoke to them.
Not to mention that this is a super weak excuse, given that if legality of content was actually an issue, MD wouldn't exist in the first place. And if MD really cared about underage characters, it'd be trivial to just purge the literally hundreds of series with thousands of chapters that are tagged with both loli or shota and pornographic. Add suggestive to that list and you could just purge like half of all manga in existence.
Please see:
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.
Ether stated what was affected in the current round, and I will refrain from speculating on things we have not received complaints on.
I won't bother with further "what about x series" replies.
you're just pretending to be stupid and you know it.
just shut the website down, dude.
If you believe there is anything wrong with what you quoted, spell it out. I don't mind replying if people are being civil, but if you're just gonna vaguepost and insult me you're just getting banned.
Twitter is a for-profit corporation. Mangadex is a non-profit project run by the scanlation community for the scanlation community, and being able to operate in any arbitrary jurisdiction shouldn't be a consideration. Even comparing the two is an insult to our intelligence. Unless all the reassurances from the mods that MD is still a community project and being operated by NamiComi won't change anything are BS.
Though seriously, if this is a decision from the new corporate overlords, just tell us that openly. You owe us that much considering MangaDex would be nothing without its user community, and the contributors need to know whether they can still post content here or if they need to be afraid of running afoul of unannounced rule changes.
MD is a non-profit project, but the costs are still running. We gotta do what we gotta do. And as stated back in the takedown FAQ, one of the reasons for coming under NC management was due to the legal framework to handle claims like these.
"Bad faith" when you have Admins in the staff calling people pedophiles over manga.
Using bad faith as an argument was immediately lost when this happened.
Yes, it was uncalled for. I and several staff members wish she hadn't said that. I can't change the past, you can choose to believe in her apology or not. She's not getting demoted or removed over it. I'm not mad about it, but I think it's understandable that other people are. The choice to remove the content was unrelated to her or any staff member's personal opinion of the content.
Oh! So you admit that you are CHOOSING to censor things.
You could just... not cater to those jurisdictions, just like how you don't cater to the Muslim countries that ban homosexuality.
So you blatantly lied when you claimed that you have no choice, you blatantly lied when you claimed that censoring is the only way for MangaDex to continue to exist.
There are other ways for MangaDex to continue to exist, you are simply not choosing those ways.
Yes, much like you choose to follow laws instead of going to jail. Or how you choose to remove dozens of titles instead of blocking millions of users. Or how you choose to be obtuse about wording to post passive-agressive replies instead of using reasonable common sense interpratation.
with all the surveillance attempts and censorship efforts lately
