Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[braixenlover]

This probably has something to do with Texas passing that stupid anti-anime/manga law, and the state could bring you to court if the site is either in Texas or is accessible there, but it's hard to prove the threshold for any legal action against Mangadex.

i created an account just to squash this... while mangadex COULD be removing it because of texas law, texas law is 100% illegal and thus if they ever challenged anyone for anything loli related it would be a slam dunk case to squash their law, the supreme court has ruled numerous times on content that includes "lolicon" in it, and its a form of freedom of expression, courts across the united states have also confirmed that supreme court ruling like with a man in indiana charged with 2 counts of CP because of hentai/manga of lolicon content, the courts agreed with the interpretation that the supreme court ruled lolicon content protected under first amendment grounds. TEXAS law has the EXACT same wording as the federal law congress tried to pass in 1996 that the supreme court struck down for being "overbroad" including stuff in it that is protected as it does not contain real children in it.

 

[ZoeYggdraseed]

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.

I think someone needs to take you off damage control, you did a lot of damage to how the mod team is perceived and you clearly aren't very good at self-control

 

[Angry_Panda]

i created an account just to squash this... while mangadex COULD be removing it because of texas law, texas law is 100% illegal and thus if they ever challenged anyone for anything loli related it would be a slam dunk case to squash their law, the supreme court has ruled numerous times on content that includes "lolicon" in it, and its a form of freedom of expression, courts across the united states have also confirmed that supreme court ruling like with a man in indiana charged with 2 counts of CP because of hentai/manga of lolicon content, the courts agreed with the interpretation that the supreme court ruled lolicon content protected under first amendment grounds. TEXAS law has the EXACT same wording as the federal law congress tried to pass in 1996 that the supreme court struck down for being "overbroad" including stuff in it that is protected as it does not contain real children in it.

Two points on this:
1. No one really wants to be the test case.
2. Have you seen the Supreme Court recently?

 

[yogurtman250]

I think someone needs to take you off damage control, you did a lot of damage to how the mod team is perceived and you clearly aren't very good at self-control

Honestly feels like it was either made by choice lmao.

 

[braixenlover]

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.

ah there we go, found the stupid ass post from twitter, i was looking for it, what a dogshit take, let this be a lesson for anyone who is trying to make a site for manga/anime, never put yourself under places like UK law, never be a fucking dumbass as well who doesn't fight said stupid ass laws that not only take away freedom of expression but literally deny sharing of an artists work. anyway my job here is done, im going to go to one of many better sites listed on the index, theres hundreds of sites for manga and ones that have way more and better content than this piece of shit website.

 

[Jachinz]

Well I'll stick around till the sunset finally happens, I always do.
Even the manga I qc'd for, got removed off site still got finished by someone else anyways. Scanlation is never gonna die this site will though.

 

[Archimedes5000]

Stop the misinformation.

What misinformation?
You literally confirmed what everyone was talking about.

Besides I don't think it's unreasonable to speculate that MangaDex, which recently complied with a crippling DMCA, and which is funded by a publishing company, would further attempt to go legal

 

[TheSeer]

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.

 

[braixenlover]

Two points on this:
1. No one really wants to be the test case.
2. Have you seen the Supreme Court recently?

supreme court doesn't care, the most recent case from courts was in a RED STATE and was in 2024, courts care about previous cases, and they care about the constitution, nothing more, the constitution no matter how you interpret, clearly states that the government can't abridge the freedom of speech, freedom of speech includes expression which means it includes ART, which loli is art, these rulings go back all the way to before porn itself was even mainstream and loli wasn't even as big of an art form back then... the supreme court nowadays would not care.


point 1 was addressed as well with this... its not a test case since you can point at previous rulings, the court case in 2024 was dismissed on first amendment grounds and the dude listed 5 different cases for why it should be, and they agreed (even the state agreed)

 

[Seeh]

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.

Oh it is pretty easy to find new sites that are not pro censorship, that's for sure, there's a lot out there

The problem comes with having this sort of mentality on this age and era, it's dangerous to see that these sort of people go around and are able to do this sort of stuff, at least making people aware of it it's important

 

[BestBoy]

The whining is for nothing

The whining makes them feel seen, tho

 

[Basic_human]

Enjoy fantisizing over fictional kids being lewd I guess, nice self-report

Man this remind me of the case of Mike Diana the comic artist who were framed for murder and thought to be serial killer because his comic have lot of obscene and gruesome stuff.

People think he is automatically guilty because he draw obscene stuff and anti religion. But it's just drawing in the end.

After the further investigation he was innocent, but his drawing certainly are very gore. He didn't do anything and all just his imagination put into paper.

if depiction of fiction aren't allowed what about all media who have body horror and gore ?

All the revenge manga with excessive blood. Things like mortal Kombat too should be illegal because people get mutilated. Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul have a lot of scene about drug, cartel, and dirty lawyer that help criminals. Its all illegal thing that if happen in real life gonna get you big trouble. Yet nothing, no one arrested, because what happened in fiction didn't actually happen.

 

[Angry_Panda]

courts care about previous cases, and they care about the constitution, nothing more

Like they did with Roe v Wade.

 

[braixenlover]

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.

agreed, pretty sure everyone is shitting on them BEFORE doing that, thats what i came here to do, it is an idiotic choice, it feels like they are trying to do what crunchyroll did, and we all know how shit that place is now so...

 

[braixenlover]

Like they did with Roe v Wade.

yeah, the court saw that nothing in the constitution states that abortion is a right... go read the constitution, im not going to sit here and argue random politics with you, im just stating the facts of the supreme court, you can go read the 14th amendment if you want, nothing in there includes a right to an abortion, roe v wade ruling makes it so THE PEOPLE can decide whether its legal or not, aka up to the states, the constitution only protects rights and each state can limit or unlimit whatever they want not related to that. i am not here to sit here and argue about every single supreme court ruling... if you want that, go to twitter.

 

[Arklaw]

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

 

[furryadminhypocrite]

https://mangadex.org/titles/recommended
idol looking GIRL + "suggestive themes"
"school life" + "sexual violence" how long does it take?

 

[TGN]

I'm just watching these comments get progressively more heated as I sit with my cat on my lap

 

[yogurtman250]

I'm just watching these comments get progressively more heated as I sit with my cat on my lap.

It's has a consistent 100 viewer count for hours. I'm scared on what type of shitstorm this could bring. I want to yap in the forums in peace 😭

 

[braixenlover]

I'm just watching these comments get progressively more heated as I sit with my cat on my lap

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