Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfortable

Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by mirimir on Saturday August 19, 2017 @10:35AM (#15053581)

Well, it's not just pictures.

> “After the enforcement, there will still be high school girls out there who are going to want to earn pocket money, and the men who target these girls won’t disappear, either,” said an official from the Metropolitan Police Department.

> “The police come inside, so there are no more real JK girls at the shop. Most of the business is being arranged over the internet, through enko (compensated dating) services.”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/06/national/crime-...

Global Internet morality is unworkable.

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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by etplayer on Saturday August 19, 2017 @10:37AM (#15053598)

This is a separate issue, though it is a problem of course.

The fact that this is conflated with the idea of drawn representations of fictional characters is saddening and only server so confuse matters.

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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by mirimir on Saturday August 19, 2017 @11:07AM (#15053785)

I'm not conflating anything. I'm saying that applying American sexual standards to Japanese culture is problematic. If it's not uncommon for ~14 year old women to earn spending money as sex workers, why wouldn't pictures of naked ~14 year old women be likewise common?

One could, of course, argue that Japanese culture is backward and unenlightened. Indeed, I'm sure that many Japanese are convinced of that.

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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by 0x8BADF00D on Saturday August 19, 2017 @05:39PM (#15055773)

> If it's not uncommon for ~14 year old women to earn spending money as sex workers, why wouldn't pictures of naked ~14 year old women be likewise common?

Japan has a culture of child idols too, who are typically pre-pubescent in age. What you're getting at is the distinction between prostitution and pornography is merely syntactic.

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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by realsimulacrum on Saturday August 19, 2017 @10:47AM (#15053652)

This isn't morally equivalent, and the amount of overlap between JK and otaku is questionable. It's also unambiguously illegal and happening in the open, which makes the issue a lack of law enforcement rather than cultural desensitization.

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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by userbinator on Saturday August 19, 2017 @10:59AM (#15053734)

There were girls who made more than ¥100,000 (about $880) per day through prostitution

Business owners and employees who do not comply could face up to a year in prison or a fine of up to ¥1 million ($8,900).

These numbers make the risk analysis interesting.

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Re:Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfort... by mirimir on Saturday August 19, 2017 @11:23AM (#15053883)

Girls don't need "owners and employees". They have the Internet.

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