Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[cybeast21]

According to Bart, they are currently under reviewing.
Knowing how corpo work, they want to hide their shit, so let wait till final annoucement.

I trust "Under reviewing" as much as I trust Joker in Batman

 

[Blanc]

I trust "Under reviewing" as much as I trust Joker in Batman

Something better than nothing, not like we don't already make other decisions.
seem like there are dozens of people start flooding the server with request so they can export their stuff to the alternative site akready.

mangadex LTD is a company, so customers have choice to use it or not, it just happened that they used their goodwill credit on this.

 

[cybeast21]

Something better than nothing, not like we don't already make other decisions.
seem like there are dozens of people start flooding the server with request so they can export their stuff to the alternative site akready.

mangadex LTD is a company, so customers have choice to use it or not, it just happened that they used their goodwill credit on this.

I'd probably just exporting my read list to other site after this since I dunno when/if they'll get removed DX

 

[Tscheddov]

Our legal department told us to take action and we took it. That is the extent of what I can or want to say regarding that.

you took action for sure. we see that and thats why we are here.

Stop evading my question. Tell us who contacted you. Who is this "legal nexus" ?
keeping this a secret makes it worse.
If these people are so proud of what they do and truly believe they are in the right, i am sure they want to be in the open so that their followers and supporters can celebrate them.

tell us who they are. messing with other people and pushing their beliefs and agenda on others but trying to keep anonymous is just disgusting.

why don't you tell us who they are ? on what basis ? Did they add a sentence like: "remove that bad stuff but dont dare tell anyone who made you do it, or else . . ."

that looks more like mobster tactics than a "legal nexus"

Staff want to keep pulling this shit, I'm pulling my funding.

yeah. you should do that. i alredy canceled mine on saturday.
everyone should.
they need to feel it in the wallet to understand

 

[NightmareOkami]

Titles being removed are those we have been made aware of through a legal nexus as "considered the distribution of illegal material". Moderation will not go beyond the titles mentioned; there was Papa Milk and anything adjacent, and some others still in review.

If we are notified of anything else, we will try to inform uploaders before proceeding with removals, where possible.

It's fiction not reality

 

[Owyoushotme]

I doubt they would cause problems for other users, though.

The whole reason I found out about this was me seeing ads, went to discord to get support l. Next day someone reacted to my message so i check back and find this whole mess.

 

[Zahogan]

Hey @Bartolumiu, since it appears you're the only one from the staff with a brain, who do I have to contact to have my entire account and all its associated data deleted? I have decided to finally leave this cesspool. With mods like these and the lack of communication before any sweeping action is taken, be it censoring or completely deleting series, I no longer have any faith in the site and its staff members.

 

[Owyoushotme]

you took action for sure. we see that and thats why we are here.

Stop evading my question. Tell us who contacted you. Who is this "legal nexus" ?
keeping this a secret makes it worse.
If these people are so proud of what they do and truly believe they are in the right, i am sure they want to be in the open so that their followers and supporters can celebrate them.

tell us who they are. messing with other people and pushing their beliefs and agenda on others but trying to keep anonymous is just disgusting.

why don't you tell us who they are ? on what basis ? Did they add a sentence like: "remove that bad stuff but dont dare tell anyone who made you do it, or else . . ."

that looks more like mobster tactics than a "legal nexus"




yeah. you should do that. i alredy canceled mine on saturday.
everyone should.
they need to feel it in the wallet to understand

Done

 

[Flash_Dingo]

There are several jurisdictions that consider ficional depictions of underage characters in sexual acts to be illegal.

Pretty sure there are also a lot of jurisdictions that consider piracy illegal, you clown.

 

[Livamyyo]

Site's long gone to shit, and became worse with the new tourist 'leadership'. Fuck em.

 

[Baniita]

Why is an illegal site trying to comply with a law that doesn’t even exist where they are based? You’re street rats, stop trying to act like you’re princes.

It is illegal in the UK. If that really is where they're based.

 

[BestBoy]

entire account and all its associated data deleted

not possible, but maybe in the future apparently.

 

[Tscheddov]

At least have the bravery to @ me

its not about bravery. i just didnt bother to do so because i don't care

 

[Rebelgamer]

You all are getting mad at the site. You should be getting mad at the group creating the problem in the first place, and that is the evangelical christians in the US that think they can dictate their preferences over everyone but themselves. This is the same group that claims 'my body, my choice" when it comes to vaccines, but "your body, my choice" when it comes to sex, abortions or anything else they don't like. They claim to be small government, then promptly shove the government into every facet of your life.

For example, Texas. Strict abortion ban. Then sues other states to get information on Texas residents that traveled to get an abortion. Then you have the elephant in the room, SB 20, that went into effect in Sept 2025. Do I believe it is unconstitutional, yes I do. But to get it declared by a court, you have go through the legal process and multiple levels of appeals, as I guarantee that the Texas AG will fight for it, regardless of the merits. And don't forget this is a criminal matter, not a civil matter. Between that and US courts deciding they have jurisdiction regardless of how removed the defendant may be from that court, and you start to understand how the reluctance of the staff of MD to being the canary about the legality of this law.

Spoiler: Relevant section from SB 20

(b) A person commits an offense if the person:
(1) knowingly possesses, accesses with intent to view,
or promotes obscene visual material containing a depiction that
appears to be of a child younger than 18 years of age engaging in
activities described by Section 43.21(a)(1)(B), regardless of
whether the depiction is an image of an actual child, a cartoon or
animation, or an image created using an artificial intelligence
application or other computer software; or
(2) uses an image of an actual child younger than 18
years of age at the time the image was made with the intent to train
an artificial intelligence model to produce visual material
constituting child pornography under Section 43.26.
(c) An offense under this section is a state jail felony,
except that the offense is:
(1) a felony of the third degree if it is shown on the
trial of the offense that the person has been previously convicted
one time of an offense under this section or Section 43.23, 43.26,
43.261, or 43.262; or
(2) a felony of the second degree if it is shown on the
trial of the offense that the person has been previously convicted
two or more times of an offense under this section, Section 43.23,
43.26, 43.261, or 43.262, or any combination of those offenses.
(d) If conduct constituting an offense under this section
also constitutes an offense under another law, the actor may be
prosecuted under this section, the other law, or both.

Now, if you have the finances and wherewithal to fight this in court, it's easy. Just create a Texas hosted site featuring underage manga characters and don't hide your information as the domain holder. Then you can spend the next several years fighting through the appeals process, and it can take a decade or more depending on how many times it gets sent back to lower courts.

The above is my guess based on what I've seen, though it could be a different legal issue. Same result regardless.

So you can stop bitching that the staff are protecting themselves. Does it suck, yes, but it's more of an annoyance to me than anything else, just like the DMCA nuke last year. And if this is the hill you are willing to die on, why are you still bitching on the forums here, just move on for fucks sake.

 

[Bartolumiu]

You're not even gonne give @EtherealNeko a warning on their username for personal attack like how some users get theirs? What a fucking joke. I guess it takes a long time for the devs/mods to generate a corpo mumbo jumbo damage control response huh.

I literally cannot (otherwise I would've already).
See for example your post

And the options I have for hers

 

[Tscheddov]

I literally cannot (otherwise I would've already).
See for example your post
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And the options I have for hers
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unrelated, but whats the IP icon doing ?

 

[Blanc]

range ban i guess

 

[Bartolumiu]

Hey @Bartolumiu, since it appears you're the only one from the staff with a brain, who do I have to contact to have my entire account and all its associated data deleted? I have decided to finally leave this cesspool. With mods like these and the lack of communication before any sweeping action is taken, be it censoring or completely deleting series, I no longer have any faith in the site and its staff members.

The backend devs are working on a solution for both username changes and account deletions right now.
For now, the only options are either to wait until it's available again or I can ban the account and add a note indicating the deletion request (I recommend the former tho).

 

[Bartolumiu]

unrelated, but whats the IP icon doing ?

It checks for possible alt accounts

 

[Zahogan]

The backend devs are working on a solution for both username changes and account deletions right now.
For now, the only options are either to wait until it's available again or I can ban the account and add a note indicating the deletion request (I recommend the former tho).

I guess I'll wait for the account deletion feature, it gives me time to back up my follows. Also, please pass along to the backend devs a feature request for follow import/export, it would make life easier instead of having to manually write down the ~300+ series I'm following. Also, do you have any insight if the "delete account" feature will actually delete all data from your servers, or only raise a "deleted" flag on the account and make it unavailable but keep its data in the servers?