Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[ScarecrowB]

We can't get the fucking Epstein files released but THIS is the hill they choose to die on? Damn those fictional characters sure have better human rights than... actual humans...

 

[Rillant]

this “minor” buzzword is so hilarious.

I once talked about this on the Bato.to discord and the admins said they didn't allow sex scenes with “minors” in it and I had to point out to them that when you simply searched for the tag “shoujo” that 1/3 of the results featured it in some capacity. Mainstream magazines like Sho-Comi and Cheese very regularly feature 15-17 year old characters having sex.

Or like this Tumblr blog for erotic fanfiction about Diabolik Lovers which claims to refuse to publish anything featuring “minors”, ehh... cool, but the protagonist of the franchise that's featured in 90% of your fiction is 17 years old... that's a minor.

It's so hilarious how people just use this word everywhere in this without realizing what it means and what they're doing. I can guarantee you Mangadex is full of shit with “minors” having sex in it.

Exactly this. If they truly cared about this at least 50-60% of the shoujo titles need to go because they depict sex between underage teens.

Chop chop MD team!

So glad I jumped off this sinking ship when I did.

 

[Tscheddov]

Stop debating about this one stray cat title. The issue is at least one level above this.
We are talking about removing drawings.
none of this is real or even looks real. Its as fictive as it can get. Everyone with a sane mind can tell at first sight that this is fantasy.
No humans are involved or in any way harmed in this works (the person drawing it not counted in)
Sometimes i think some people here never saw a real person in the flesh.
And again: why removing the whole title instead of just disabling the chapters ?
What if one of many chapters of a title is deemed problematic ?

What will be axed next ? Stuff like deadtube because of depicted violence and murder?

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Shouldn't the solution of just banning Texas from the site be much more preferable?
Any Texans that want to use Mangadex can use a VPN then, until they vote a government that isn't consisting of retarded puritan geriatrics.

 

[Basic_human]

I would like to know when they will be removing all of the horror manga. Murder is illegal, and I wont stand for it being on the site.

Crime manga too, or anything with Gore tag

 

[wolf222]

why did they remove the umamusume one too??

 

[Evans01]

why did they remove the umamusume one too??

Takedown Request from someone in Japan (maybe he is a part of DLSite or someone related to the author? dunno)

 

[wolf222]

Damm that sad 😔 I was gonna reread that

 

[Z3RYX]

Any bets on when (or even if) they're gonna make an official statement? It's already been like a day since they started taking down shit.

Here they wanna tell us to not upload that kind of stuff but fail to specify what counts.
Loli hentai? Sure.
Loli erotica? Maybe...
Suggestive loli? Who knows?

Is it gonna be just based on appearance, or also age? What if a character with adult appearance is underage (rare but it happens)? Will it actually be every character under the age of 18, which is like the majority of the romance genre out there?

Furthermore, they haven't said why they're taking the whole title down instead of just chapters, which they would normally do for DMCA cases.

I would like to see full transparency from MD staff:

• The exact reason for the recent policy change
• The options they considered before arriving at full censorship
• A list of affected titles
• The reasoning for wiping all metadata of affected titles
• The very specific definitions of the content they no longer wish to host

Beyond that I would also be interested in a response regarding the slippery slope argument (it starts with loli hentai, it ends with any and all sexualization), and personally I would still like a response regarding EtherealNeko's behavior as a site admin; accusing us of spreading misinformation when the staff team failed to inform us in the first place, abusing their power to shut down the discussion for no reason, and lying about the existing rules or their prior enforcement.

 

[Yube]

pathetic 🤮

 

[Tscheddov]

Any bets on when (or even if) they're gonna make an official statement? It's already been like a day since they started taking down shit.

Here they wanna tell us to not upload that kind of stuff but fail to specify what counts.
Loli hentai? Sure.
Loli erotica? Maybe...
Suggestive loli? Who knows?

Is it gonna be just based on appearance, or also age? What if a character with adult appearance is underage (rare but it happens)? Will it actually be every character under the age of 18, which is like the majority of the romance genre out there?

Furthermore, they haven't said why they're taking the whole title down instead of just chapters, which they would normally do for DMCA cases.

I would like to see full transparency from MD staff:

• The exact reason for the recent policy change
• The options they considered before arriving at full censorship
• A list of affected titles
• The reasoning for wiping all metadata of affected titles
• The very specific definitions of the content they no longer wish to host

Beyond that I would also be interested in a response regarding the slippery slope argument (it starts with loli hentai, it ends with any and all sexualization), and personally I would still like a response regarding EtherealNeko's behavior as a site admin; accusing us of spreading misinformation when the staff team failed to inform us in the first place, abusing their power to shut down the discussion for no reason, and lying about the existing rules or their prior enforcement.

Exactly what Z3RYX said:

They haven't said why they're taking the whole title down instead of just chapters, which they would normally do for DMCA cases.

I would like to see full transparency from MD staff:
The exact reason for the recent policy change
The options they considered before arriving at full censorship
A list of affected titles
The reasoning for wiping all metadata of affected titles
The very specific definitions of the content they no longer wish to host

 

[Kanami-chan]

I just realized this admin who can't distinguish fiction from reality is a newguy who joined in late 2024.
This website needs a better HR interviewer, man.

 

[SubparRobot]

No, I don't believe you. Not for a second. This is a site already built on skirting the law. Laws that are much more plainly written and widespread than vague, local anti-loli laws. If you're going to get shut down, it won't be for loli.

As many sites have been doing for the last decade+, you're doing this to appease a power tripping moderator who can't separate fiction from reality and should never have been allowed in. Don't pretend any different.

 

[grrman]

How utterly pathetic and cowardly of them to remove this. Sure am glad alternatives are popping up...

Which one's would you suggest? (Just names are fine)

 

[ipmanvsthemask]

Real time Crunchyroll-ification.

 

[Tscheddov]

As many sites have been doing for the last decade+, you're doing this to appease a power tripping moderator who can't separate fiction from reality and should never have been allowed in. Don't pretend any different

Dont pick too much on this etherealneko guy.
This shit was surely not his idea. He probably just had been tasked to handle this in the forums ("the new guys gotta dew it") and did that rather poorly.
The only other official post on this is from xnot.
I ask for more and better communication.

If there will be improvements i will consider reestablishing my support over on namicomi

At least one 20 dollar tear subscriber canceled yesterday.
That was me

 

[yogurtman250]

Real time Crunchyroll-ification.

How long do y'all think it'll take for MD to become a company? 5 years.

 

[Tscheddov]

How long do y'all think it'll take for MD to become a company? 5 years.

Already is.
Md is registered as a business
https://www.northdata.com/Mangadex UK Ltd·, Mildenhall/Companies House 16623153

 

[yogurtman250]

Already is.
Md is registered as a business

I meant in the sense that MD will provide in-house licensed translations and slowly remove the scanlations

 

[BestBoy]

Already is.

This is how I find out Dex-chan is Bri'ish!?