Amazon Unleashes New Wave Of Anime Figure Bans, Claims They “Promote Child Exploitation”
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It's a distaste for censorship in any form.
If one thing can be banned under the rationale of "think of the (fictional/theoretical/non-real) children!", then anything can be banned under it. That's not "sliipery slope" or "snowball fallacy", it's called "precedent", and is something used in courts every single day to justify the wrongs they commit against others. The bible, morality lessons, even how-to guides on building your own deck, they all could harm theoretical non-real children in a preposterous mind experiment, after all.
The totalist anti-censorship society doesn't exist. It's a Platonic pipe dream. Utopia. Crazy as libertarianism.
Every nation that was and will be has to enforce some kind of social cohesion on their youth through de jure power, otherwise things rapidly fall apart. We had to fight the anarchists in the 20s, the communists in the 60s, and now troons in the 21st century. We will have to purge LGBT books from schools and promote traditionalism in social activities and curriculum. Neutrality is a fool's errand.
The retort is that lolicon porn is nothing compared to communism, but the basic point is that your idea rejection of censorship in any form is not workable if you want to maintain anything. In fact, we must censor in certain spheres of influence and we must do it to protect children. Of course the nuts out there are painting the Bible as harmful to children, that's been happening for over a decade. We have to stop their growing hegemony, and we can only do it with our own hegemony.
When it comes to adults, de facto censorship is also present in every society in history, because deviants and morons must be controlled by shame and ostracization. Good luck peddling gay smut in 1850s America. Even adult speech may reasonably be regulated de jure, because some speech is both valueless and harmful. Slander, for instance. Obscenity also is valueless. The human race created our greatest achievements without hardcore porn and in fact, after the advent of ubiquitous porn catering to every taste under the sun, we haven't been very daring at all. So at best, porn isn't doing anything good for us. At worst, it's creating legions of furries, sissy boys, and troons and Pornhub's artificial promotion of stepsister porn is well known, so it's a Jewish vector of destabilization as well.
I don't want a war on lolicon or anything dramatic, but I don't have sympathy for people who throw a fit when you can't buy loli VNs on Steam. No Playboy at Walmart either, want to protest that as well? In fact, why don't you pressure Walmart to carry loli doujins? Same principle. They get hit with the softest de facto censorship and they want to pretend it's an important front in the war on freedom? Get back in the hole.