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Pixiv Blocks Adult Content, but Only for US and UK Users
Pixiv, a Japan-based image gallery site, is enforcing new "Restrictions for Healthy Expression" for users in the US and UK.
But it also includes “content that appeals to the prurient interest, is patently offensive in light of community standards where you are located or where such content may be accessed or distributed, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, or otherwise violates any applicable obscenity laws, rules or regulations.” This is an invocation of the Miller test, which determines non-constitutionally protected obscenity. “I'd never say this a few years ago, but it's my personal fear that the next step is most major internet hosting services implementing these policies on an infrastructure level,” kradeelav said. Gumroad blamed banking partners as its reason for cracking down on erotic content, and the threat of payment processors leaving platforms has chilled sexual speech across the internet—most notably, when Mastercard and Visa pulled services from Pornhub in 2020.
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