There's a difference between sexual exploitation being caused because of a failures to protect child actors. Versus in industry specifically designed to exploit children sexually. I know it's hard to see the distinction but it's there. I think it's intent that you're looking for.
I won't deny the entertainment industries in both Japan and the West are guilty of this. But what I'm saying here is that it's laughably disingenuous and unfair to single out Japan by labeling them as the Israel of East Asia (because tradcons preach about how Israel is the source of everything being wrong with the world and now they're starting to put Japan in this category) while downplaying the shit that happens in the West too because I guess the West is the most superior culture in the world (even though someday the West will decline and die out like the many empires that came before it).
It's a case of knowing not to throw stones in glass houses and at times the Kiwis get too focused on the forest that they forget that the forest is made of trees.
No it's not it is what it is.
Pornography isn't free speech. It can be argued to be freedom of expression. Just like it can be argued whether or not this expression should be allowed to carry over to such topics as beasty or ethical child porn. Which the vast majority of the civilized world has determined to not be permissible.
Hate speech laws on the other hand are often a violation of the principles freedom of speech.
Both hate speech and porn (with the objective exception to CSAM because that is not seen as free speech anywhere) are free speech. It's just that I find both extremes are willing to cherry pick which they want to support to push their own grifts.
For the far-left, they will argue that stuff like porn is free speech but will argue that hate speech is not free speech because it can lead to radicalization that can lead to real world harm. For those on the far-right, they will argue that hate speech is free speech but will argue that porn or anything non-Christian should be banned because they claim that will lead to real life harm (similar to the reasoning left wingers use to wanting to ban hate speech).
Neither political extreme care about free speech and only say they do for their own benefit. For the far-left they only care about spreading their progressives ideals on things like LGBT topics and disregard everything else. For the far-right, they just want to say 'nigger' on Xbox Live again and disregard everything else.
The most recent thing to join porn and hate speech is the topic of perceived misinformation where some governments and political activists are using this grift to justify more censorship (people also have the right to consume total bullshit like Flat Earth if they want to).
You're either for free speech or you're not, you cannot have it both ways.
So much schizophrenia generally it's accepted in America that 18 is an adult 21 you have your full rights as a citizen.
As for Japan up until recently in the grand scheme of things reluctantly disavow child pornography and is only now sort of addressing the other aspects of their child predation. Like lolion or child idols.
Not really schizophrenic when that is still true. Things like Child Beauty Pageants are still legal in America and there is still no notable effort to do away with that. Child Beauty Pageants are America's own version of Japanese child idols and the only reason why they are still tolerated in America is because a lot of American moms project their insecurities on their kids and force them to take part in these questionable pageants anyway (America and much of the Western world is still pretty degenerate in its own way).
As for lolicon, I don't think that is going to go away in Japan anytime soon because Japan has officially joined the culture wars when it comes to their pop culture media. This started when the Japanese began noticing losers in the West blackwashing their characters and call that "original artwork" and that debate ignited the culture war debate on things like Wokeness and free speech in Japan (the way how Western media censors Japanese content and how left-wingers treat their IPs have entered the Overton Window in Japan where the vast majority of Japanese seem to be mocking and rejecting the West's attempts to subvert them). Even the Japanese are joining the lolicons in the fight for free speech for anime and manga and they're not joining the tradcons that want to censor a stuff (this is based on what I've been seeing on social media recently).
While Japan is still a socially conservative society, the vast majority of them don't want to go back to the days of Imperial Japan back when it was a fascist theocracy. They like their liberal democracy where they can buy stuff they want through capitalism and enjoy rights like free speech. and freedom of movement in their country. The Japanese really do not like having their rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression being violated (be it by the state or some dumbass living outside of Japan). I notice that the countries that were formerly dictatorships often reject autocratic ideals because the pain can still be felt generations after the fact and no one wants to go back (another example of this is Poland where the Poles outright reject both communism and fascism because those two ideologies mistreated them horribly).
They have more influence and reach than you may think.
You might not think they're popular but they're popular enough and supported by institutions that allow them to spread their message. Also Lacey green that's the person that you picked? Why not shoe or Brittany venti ?
Breadtube have no notable significant influence outside of the Internet. Breadtube is mostly significant on the Internet but when it comes to IRL, their popularity doesn't translate well to the real world.
If Breadtube was really as influential as you say it is, by now Brianna Wu would be a sitting member of Congress and we would hear never ending rants about Gamergate from the House of Representatives. Brianna Wu tried to run for public office but each time Brianna Wu got destroyed in the polls no matter how many times they brought up Gamergate.
You can say the same thing about right-wing influencers on the Internet. Sargon of Akkad was never going to become an elected official because he was under the delusional belief he was bigger than he really was and made an ass out of himself when he tried to get elected under the UKIP ticket,
Breadtube is not as big as you think they are.
I haven't thought about Lacey Greene since she fucked Chris ray gun and her Coke nudes appeared
Much disappointment definitely a drunken four out of five.
The last I heard from Laci Green is that she gave up the left-wing stuff and became a moderate. I'm not sure what else happened to her after that.
This proves my point. Kiwi Farms doesn't understand that ethics and law are not the same thing and think the two are one in the same (the Authoritarian's Fallacy).
Ethics is a branch of philosophy that often doesn't contradict itself. While ethics may have an influence on law, there's a very good reason why ethics is seen as a branch of philosophy and not a branch of law (ethics is what is used to argue what is moral and just that can influence law, not the other way around).
And it's not High School DxD, the anime that got banned in New Zealand for roughly 20 years is Puni Puni Poemy (a two episode anime series that is a spin-off to the much more popular anime comedy series Excel Saga). It was banned in New Zealand back in 2003 or 2004 (I forget what year in was banned in that country) because of 'muh-lolis' and muh-violence'.
Around 20 years after the fact, sometime in 2021 a New Zealander made an appeal to the NZ government to reconsider its classification and the judge in charge of the case concluded that it was unethical for the NZ government to ban the series because it violated the universal human right that is free speech. So the ban for that old anime series was finally lifted in New Zealand afterwards. It should've never happened in the first place as this was a miscarriage of justice and violated the principles of free speech but this mistake done by the New Zealand government was finally corrected many years after the fact.
Ethics doesn't change much but laws do. Societal norms doesn't stay the same forever and laws eventually adapt to how people view certain issues. Currently lolicon is not legally allowed in New Zealand and in several other developed countries but that will very likely change soon as Japanese content gets more and more popular (because anime and manga are no longer these niche forms of entertainment anymore). New Zealand lifted the ban on Puni Puni Poemy because they don't want to be compared to Russia or Iran or China where those countries suppress free speech for unethical reasons; those countries that currently have a ban on loli content will eventually lift their bans on that content because they don't want to be seen as unethical over violating the right to free speech either. It's why anyone that thinks law = ethics should be seen as midwits that you should point and laugh at. Don't be a mitwit like those on Kiwi Farms if you ask me.
