new blog

Update:

Steam has confirmed the bans and Collective Shout has claimed (partial) responsiblity.

Update 2:

Some good news!

Update 3:

Better news!!

Update 4:

WORSE NEWS

Update 5:

Japanese coverage and UK's Online Safety Act

Update 6:

UK Online Safety Act (which is currently being used to censor Wikipedia and protest videos) now has a US version in the introductory stage, introduced in May. Call your senators and reps to stand against it.

Update 7:

The censors are proud enough to say the quiet part out loud.

Update 8:

Censorship comes for Youtube

Update 9:

Youtube doubles down but so does Japan

Update 10:

Itch.io has re-indexed NSFW games, but you will NOT be able to financially support the developers. The payment processors are STILL restricting them. This is appeasement. This is not good enough.

Update 11:

The UN is at it again...

Update 12:

Payment processors could be getting sued for censoring Steam and Itch.io

Update 13:

Australia has mandated ID Verification

Update 14:

Youtube bans VPNs to "protect children"

Update 15:

More Senators are supporting the censorship of anime, manga, and the internet at large

Update 16:

The UN supports Collective Shout

Update 17:

Adobe has banned Japanese artists

Update 18:

More censorship on Change.com, Reddit, Paypal, and Patreon

Update 19:

Executive Order issued in favor of anti-censorship/anti-debanking. This is a band-aid at best, continue calling the processors and your senators.

Update 20:

Riot Games accused of censoring Visa/Mastercard discussions in gamers' chats, on Mastercard's demand

Update 21:

Paypal blocks payments made to Steam

Update 22:

Steam has been successfully pressured into censoring "brand-risk games"

Update 23:

The Roblox Investigation will be used by politicians as a tool to push Kids Online Safety and SCREEN Acts. Don't let them conflate this with that.

Update 24:

Visa and Mastercard are Roblox partners

Update 25:

Gelbooru, DEG Mods, Niconico, and Danbooru forced to censor by Cloudflare

Update 26:

Kadokawa has gotten involved, calling out Visa and Mastercard over loss in profits

Update 27:

Steam silently changes it's Review Score System

Update 28:

Visa and Mastercard partner with Honkai 3rd Impact amid their censorship of similar fiction

Update 29:

Patreon is killing careers without warning

Update 30:

Collective Shout is reaping what they've sown

Update 31:

Paypal is freezing Steam Developer accounts

Update 32:

Mangaka are fighting for artistic freedom!

Update 33:

Collective Shout cannot tell fiction from reality

Update 34:

Valve folds under pressure to disallow adult-only games.

Update 35:

The UK Police make 30 arrests per day over social media posts after Digital ID enactment

Update 36:

Paypal is closing accounts of adults who buy adult-only books and games, hoarding the profits of players and developers alike

Update 37:

Canadian Petition to stop Visa and Mastercard from interfering with the Free Market has opened for signatures. Sign here!

Update 38:

Visa opens a new job listing for “Director, Global Gaming Partnerships,” with intent to censor at the source

Update 39:

Texas bans Dragon Ball

Update 40:

Japan's view on Payment Processor crackdowns

Update 41:

Visa and Mastercard call for bans on Fairies and Catgirl content

Update 42:

Age Verification Bill passes in the US, implementation starts in Ohio for September 30th

Update 43:

Payment Processor censorship hurts game preservation

Update 44:

The pro-censorship activists in Japan face major backlash from anime fans and creators alike

Update 45:

Collective Shout goes on false-flagging campaign to censor critics

Update 46:

Even more Japan-to-America merch stores face Payment Processor censorship

Update 47:

Steam can no longer update games with adult-only content

Update 48:

Visa celebrates ongoing """brand protection""" efforts

Update 49:

Michigan introduces House Bill No 4938, which proposes to ban Adult-Only Content - including fiction, VPNs, and 24-hour internet survallence with up to 25 years in prison for all Bill offenders

Update 50:

Payment Processor Stripe cuts ties with MangaPlanet due to Visa, leading to the closure of MangaPlanet's digital platform

Update 51:

Visa is fine with money laundering fraud

Update 52:

UK's Online Safety Act causes massive Discord Doxxing Leak

Update 53:

DLsite creates brand new payment method to combat Visa and Mastercard debanking efforts

Update 54:

Canada introduces new bill to restrict internet access for hackers and ransomware creators, supposedly

Update 55:

Anti-censorship sentiment is rising in Japan

Update 56:

Google and Apple forcably enact Age Verification policy in Texas, to be implemented in 2026

Update 57:

Governments are being sued over Age Verification

Update 58:

UK's Online Safety Act to enforce preemptive censorship on "priority" offenses

Update 59:

Visa and Mastercard pressure Valve to remove more Japanese games, while STILL being partnered with Roblox

Update 60:

More Japanese games have been banned from Steam

Update 61:

Japanese art website Pixiv has R-18 art banned in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the European Union, and New Zealand by Payment Processors

Update 62:

Steam is now banning Non-Adult games based on cover art

Update 63:

Japan's Government bans censorship of anime and manga

Update 64:

Steam restores Aftermath: Red Pine Lake, a Non-Adult game they once banned over the cover art

Update 65:

Australia will be banning Kick and Reddit for Under-16-year-olds, effective December 10th

Update 66:

US Taxpayer money is allegedly being used to fund international censorship efforts

Update 67:

Pro-Censorship localization team leader goes mask-off about how much they hate Japanese fiction, and got layed off

Update 68:

Steam makes final decision to cancel the release of Non-Adult Horror game "Horses" for fear of payment processor backlash

Update 69:

Age Verification is has passed in Missouri and is now being proposed nationwide

Update 70:

Mass manga censorship by Western Company incoming

Update 71:

European Union passes Age Verification Bill: The Digital Services Act, mandating monthly updates for the entire internet.

Update 72:

Germany and Saudi Arabia are banning access to Steam's release of Brave x Junction - a Japanese RPG - for "bikini armor crimes"

Update 73:

Australia's social media teenager ban has passed

Update 74:

Apple stands against Age Verification applying to their app stores

Update 75:

Australia's internet ban on teenagers faces lawsuits

Update 76:

The Executive Order against Visa and Mastercard's pro-censorship debanking efforts are bearing fruit

Update 77:

KOSA and all Age Verification bills have passed the subcommittee, days are left before they move to full committee

Update 78:

Age Verification could scan your private messages

Update 79:

Paypal has filed to become a bank

Update 80:

Louisiana blocks social media Age Verification bill

Update 81:

Age Verification could disallow VPN usage

Update 82:

Japanese otaku website DLSite sets up it's own credit card system to bypass Visa and Mastercard debanking efforts

Update 83:

Sony to censor video games in real-time with AI

Update 84:

China's largest comic convention bans Japanese anime and manga

Update 85:

Texas, Louisiana, and Ohio have reversed and/or blocked their Age Verification Laws

Update 86:

Virginia proposes to implement AI Age Verification to limit 16-year-olds and younger to 1 hour of internet usage per day.

Update 87:

Efforts for Japan to censor anime are ongoing

Update 88:

The European Union promises to replace Visa for debanking efforts with their own digital payment processor... that definitely won't also debank it's citizens

Update 89:

Pro-Censorship laws gain traction in Ireland as Age Verification Law is discussed in the European Union

Update 90:

Kids Online Safety Act remains a threat to privacy and freedom as it is being pushed into office, click to protest

Update 91:

Nebraska's Age Verification and Under-18 Social Media Ban went into effect on Janurary 1st

Update 92:

Japanese politicians are becoming aware of Western censorship through localization

Update 93:

France to ban under-15-year-olds from social media on September 2026

Update 94:

ID Age Verification is not working as intended

Update 95:

The UK will be going forward in giving Ofcom access to encrypted chat logs under the Online Safety Act

Update 96:

Update 97:

Github bans Adult-Only games and refuses to elaborate

Update 98:

Stramer retracts plans for compulsory Digital ID

Update 99:

OFCOM grants organizations more power with new and enforced Super Reporting tool

Update 100!

Discord's Age Verification is going worldwide

Update 101:

Bato.to has shut down, leaving thousands of manga as potential lost media due to copyright issues

Update 102:

Minecraft Age Verification has arrived

Update 103:

Bandai Namco admit to enforcing the censorship of Japanese anime games at the creation stage

Update 104:

Australia's anti-hate speech turned anti-free speech law makes a return

Update 105:

Spain to enact social media ban for under-16 year olds

Update 106:

Feburary 2026 is the proposed deadline that government officials expect KOSA to be implemented in the US and Section 230 to be dismantled. Click to protest against it.

Update 107:

Section 230 is still in danger.

Update 108:

The Crown Princess of Norway - the same country that arrested a man for playing an adult-only visual novel - has been revealed to be in the Epstein Files

Update 109:

Discord's Age Verification now requires full face doxx and Government ID to pass the check

Update 110:

Australian Author of Daddy's Little Girl, an adult-only fictional smut story about ageplay and DD/LG dynamics, has been found guilty of """CSEM distribution""" and will be imprisoned in April

Update 111:

Discord is tied to Palantir

Update 112:

Manga website MangaDex was forced to remove all "problematic content" by Anti-Fiction Moderators who fear a potential crackdown from UK's Online Safety Act

Update 113:

Steam and Valve are facing a 900 million dollar lawsuit against the UK for their monopoly on PC gaming market

Update 114:

The censorship of anime characters' body types has escalated

Update 115:

The largest data breach of Age Verification information just happened

Update 116:

Data-Collection company Persona is getting exposed for usage on Linkedin

Update 117:

Reddit is being fined 19 Million dollars by the UK Government for NOT imposing Age Verification

Update 118:

Japanese authors are still facing censorship demands, being forced to comply as well

Update 119:

New ban announced in the UK targets "incest simulation" in NSFW fiction, live acted by consenting and non-related adults included, with 2 ~ 5 years prison time for "offenders and distributors"

Update 120:

Anti-Anime Xenophobes exist on all sides and they all want anime censored and banned

Update 121:

Discord postpones Age Verification mandate by one year after bscklash goes nuclear

Update 122:

California Law mandates that Age Verification be enforced on Windows and Linux, starting 2027

Update 123:

Apple's Age Verification implementation will be applied globally

Update 124:

The Kids Online Safety Act is gaining support among representitives and senators. Click for a link to the script on what to say to vote no with.

Update 125:

Discord was allegedly caught lying about their former-partnership with Pandora, a face-scanning applicationn

Update 126:

Governments are promoting Age Verification

Update 127:

Japan bans censorship of fiction

Update 128:

Protests against Age Verification are gaining attention

Update 129:

Radical Feminists have gotten fanservice-filled Gacha Game Snowbreak taken down, then declare that Blue Archive is next on their hit list

Update 130:

Posting anime memes will get minors arrested in the UK. Support for internet censorship is sweeping through the US government.

Update 131:

Age Veification and Digital ID bills are passing in the US (New York and Florida)

Update 132:

Visa forces SubscribeStar to censor fictional content or be shut down

Update 133:

The US Federal Reserve offers a chance to protest against debanking, click the link to do so

Update 134:

Anime and Manga localizers push for harassing Japanese creators and companies into complying with their Western sensibilities

Update 135:

The New York Post had taken notice of hentai AND Furry 🔞

Update 136:

Crunchyroll was hacked and the many victims had their credit card details leaked

Update 137:

Japan moves forward with law banning the censorship of fictional content

Update 138:

Amazon's Age Verification is here

Update 139:

SubscribeStar will NOT be banning NSFW Anime or Furry content

Update 140:

Anime and Manga anti-fans admit to wanting One Piece Mangaka dead for "sexualized" character designs

Update 141:

FTC warns Payment Processors against continuing their political debanking campaign, siding with anti-censorship sentiment

Update 142:

The UK moves forward with plans to censor anime and manga

Update 143:

Chinese Authorities dismantle Baidu-based anime community with over 800,000 members, arresting over a dozen youths Remember that other governments are looking to reach this point

Update 144:

After Japanese anime fans found out about Crunchyroll's tendency toward censoring subtitles and dubbing scripts, Crunchyroll has region-locked Japan from accessing it's website

Update 145:

Doki Doki Literature Club Mobile has been banned globally by Google

Update 146:

Following Doki Doki Literature Club's global ban from the Google Play Store, Goddess of Victory: NIKKE will soon follow

Update 147:

Japanese Politicans are siding with the Anti Censorship Westerners!

Update 148:

Japanese Mangaka are being harassed into quitting by pro-censorship Westerners

Update 149:

BBC targets anime fans by labeling them as "predators"... despite having hired a convicted predator

Update 150:

Legal Adult-Only Doujin website FAKKU seeks alternative payment solution to fight against payment processors that forced them to censor their content

Update 151:

Kodansha USA sides with pro-censorship groups like the United Nations and the UK

Update 152:

The Japanese speak out against the UN

Update 153:

The actions of a shooter triggers revival of the "Anime causes violence" conversations as fiction is blamed for the murders

Update 154:

Censorship has come for Japan

Update 155:

Alternate revenue streams might be a solution to the video game censorship crisis

Update 156:

Stop Killing Games has won over Europe

Update 157:

Japan rejects Western censorship of fiction

Update 158:

European Age Verification has been hacked several times by now

Update 159:

Stop Killing Games just cracked into the US

Update 160:

UK VTuber was arrested for art of her model

Update 161:

Update on UK VTuber who was arrested for her model's art

Update 162:

Discourse arises from the UK VTuber who was arrested for her art as Google Doc on her case's legitimacy releases

Update 163:

The banning of VPNs has begun

Update 164:

Did that VTuber lie about getting arrested by the UK Police?

Update 165:

That VTuber who was arrested by the UK Police for her model's art (Mimi) has been proven innocent

Update 166:

CROSSDRESSER Definition: Cross-dressing means wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender, such as men wearing women’s clothes, or more rarely women wearing men’s clothes. It is a form of dress or presentation rather than any particular gender identity, sexual orientation, or motivation, and has appeared in many societies across history for reasons including disguise, comfort, self-expression, ritual, and performance. Cross-dressing is not the same as being transgender, though older writings often used broader and less precise terminology that grouped different experiences together. Flag creator: Unknown Colour meanings: Blue = traditional colour for baby boys, pink = traditional colour for baby girls.