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This is nothing new because the Russia, internet police Roskomnadzor has has been threatening Japanese artists for quite a while now, for as back as 2015
But twitter most of the time didn't comply with their demands, so Japanese artists were relatively safe.. until now. Earlier this year Roskomnadzor threatened with blocking twitter if they didn't properly removed content that was breaking the laws of their country.
Today they announced they would give twitter some time to remove rule breaking content, and twitter seems to be complying with most of their request, Roskomnadzor seems to particularly target loli artists. But all porn is illegal in russia, nobody is actually safe.
“Twitter is being provided with additional time to remove all prohibited content from the social network and bring its activities in full compliance with the laws of our country.”
Here is an article talking about it
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Roskomnadzor postpones Twitter block, but continues slowdown
10:15 am, April 5, 2021
Source: RKN
Russia’s state censor, Roskomnadzor (RKN), has decided against blocking Twitter, but will continue to throttle the social network’s traffic until May 15. In a statement released on Monday, April 5, RKN said that this comes against the backdrop of “decisions first adopted by the company Twitter on changing the principles and speed of their own moderation services” in Russia.
“Twitter is being provided with additional time to remove all prohibited content from the social network and bring its activities in full compliance with the laws of our country.”
According to RKN, Twitter has removed around 1,900 of the more than 3,100 materials that they wanted taken down for containing “child pornography, pro-drug, and suicidal content.”
According to Russian law, social networks must remove prohibited content within 24 hours of receiving a notice from Roskomnadzor. According to RKN, Twitter takes 81 hours to remove content on average.
Roskomnadzor began slowing down Twitter traffic in Russia on March 10, on the grounds that the social network had failed to remove “illegal” content. RKN also threatened to block Twitter in Russia entirely, in the event that the social network refused to comply with its orders. On March 23, RKN reported that Twitter had started work on removing banned content, but underscored that the process was happening at an “unsatisfactory pace.”
As I said, Twitter has no obligation to obey what Russia says, but they are doing it because they don't want to get blocked from Russia
Here are some tweets from Japanese artists that got suspended or were forced to remove content today
Tweet||Archive The e-mail they received from twitter (click to enlarge)
Another Japanese artist that got suspended
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Of course Japanese twitter users are rightfully mad about this, why do they have to obey Russian laws?
This guy in particulars is talking about how Russia considers lolis to be the same as CP
Here is an animation from 2017 about the Roskomnadzor(click on CC to enable english subtitles), the fun thing is they show a weaboo getting arrested by them at 0:52
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