Update on VN regulations

http://www.minori.ph/

Well well well. Looks like minori is finally giving a fairly decent explanation for blocking foreign ips. They say they're surprised because so many foreigners complained about it (Maybe it's because minori is popular overseas than in Japan. I'm not sure.)

Apparently, minori as well as many other eroge companies are being challenged with the issue of the "Freedom of Speech".




There is a bill going on that wants to restrict the eroge industry heavily, and it's all summarized/copy and pasted right here. "Currently, The bill that allows to limiting the content (It is censorship. Isn't it?) to all EROGEs is being discussed in the Diet because intellectuals and politicians said "Japanese EROGE were being problem and troubled with the foreign country. Therefore we should make EROGE hidden away from foreign country, and also its content should be limited and censored"."

Now, this part ticks me off. "Intellectuals and politicians". What is that supposed to mean?! Politicians have a power that apparently take presence over the intellectual, and I assume that the intellectuals mentioned are also politicians in some way. What about the intellectuals who actually support the eroge companies? What about us hm?

The foreign countries (I think one of them is US, but I can not be sure because there's really no information) say that eroge cause trouble for the foreigners and should be
a. Hidden from countries not Japan
b. Censored and limited

Well if you're going to hide these games from Japan, why bother limiting and censoring them anymore? minori is right. Their freedom of speech, along with the eroge industry are being heavily challenged just because their games are just "ewww" for foreigners. What about games then? Resident Evil 4 didn't exactly look well due to the zombies resembling certain people. What about Grand Theft Auto? Why are these games ok for the general public, but not eroge?

I'm getting mad over this issue. I really just wish someone would rise up and ask everyone what the hell are they doing. Because if they limit the eroge industry, they'll start limiting much much more.