[riffic]

> users whose account region is set to the US or UK

there seems to be a really simple workaround unless I'm missing something.

By the way if a website asks me for my date / year of birth it's always 1969 because why the fuck not?

specifically 1969-12-31

[omoikane]

I appreciate Pixiv letting users set their preferred region and actually respecting that setting, unlike Twitter which ignores the user's "country" setting and do all ad targeting using GeoIP instead.

[livueta]

It's especially nice given that a fair number of Japanese websites are aggressive about blocking foreign registrations even to the extent of blacklisting known VPN nodes. First thing I did upon reading this headline was confirming that my actually-created-in-Japan account hadn't ever had its location setting autoupdated by geoip.

[blackeyeblitzar]

It may not be enough in the future. The problem is every little incremental change like “giving in” to block content by region ends up welcoming the next incremental step in that direction. Other countries and regions may now apply the same pressure on Pixiv. Some might call this the slippery slope fallacy but it’s exactly how most political battles play out.

In terms of geographies - one thing I read about recently is how various “online safety czars” from countries are coordinating in groups that may soon have the power to implement global content restrictions (censorship) that respect each other’s local requests on a global scale. See this article:

https://public.substack.com/p/cia-recruit-is-pursuing-global...

> At the World Economic Forum, Inman Grant said she had launched a global censorship body called “the Global Online Safety Regulators Network” to unify governments around censorship “So that we could have a form to help us coordinate, build capacity and do just that.

[wakawaka28]

>In terms of geographies - one thing I read about recently is how various “online safety czars” from countries are coordinating in groups that may soon have the power to implement global content restrictions (censorship) that respect each other’s local requests on a global scale.

Thankfully, this dystopian wet dream is unlikely to go far. Censorship "Czars" cannot legally disregard the laws and constitutions of their respective countries. In the US, we have the First Amendment, and no politician or bureaucrat has the authority to censor speech generally.

[KennyBlanken]

>In the US, we have the First Amendment, and no politician or bureaucrat has the authority to censor speech generally.

But businesses do.

You're about fifty years out of date: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate

Christian nationalists long ago figured out they were losing the censorship battle with the postal service and governmnt...they long ago shifted to influencing every aspect of society, and one of those is business - and by that they mean financial systems.

That's why people in the porn industry keep losing their bank accounts.

It's also why the app stores and a number of websites are so strict about adult content; pressure from credit card companies.

> there are seven aspects of society that believers seek to influence: family, religion, education, media, arts & entertainment, business, and government.

[dotnet00]

It isn't just coming from "Christian Nationalists", hard 'progressive' rags have also been on a puritan streak in recent years when it relates to conventional attractiveness (especially in anime and adjacent circles). As a current ongoing matter there are all the hit pieces and whining from games journalists on how Stellar Blade's character designs are for "porn addicts".

[gjsman-1000]

It’s also worth noting that pornography is illegal in Islamic countries, and even illegal in avowedly atheist countries like China (guess what else the firewall blocks).

[wakawaka28]

>But businesses do.

There is a common misunderstanding that the government can simply ask businesses to do stuff and it's still strictly business. It's not.

>Christian nationalists long ago figured out they were losing the censorship battle with the postal service and governmnt...they long ago shifted to influencing every aspect of society, and one of those is business - and by that they mean financial systems.

Blaming the overwhelming push for censorship in the 2020s on Christians is at best misguided. They are likely to be censored themselves.

>> there are seven aspects of society that believers seek to influence: family, religion, education, media, arts & entertainment, business, and government.

This describes a lot of groups. You're quoting it like the Christians are some kind of menace, but they are the least concerning of all current threats to freedom in my book. I'm an atheist, as well.

[userbinator]

WEF, NWO. They aren't even trying to hide it anymore. Those who point out the obvious truth will of course be labeled "conspiracy theorists".

[userbinator]

1969-07-20 might be a more memorable date to some people here.

1941-12-07 could be suitable for a Japanese site.

[riffic]

I'm making a snarky allusion to the default date for a blank date field

[thaumasiotes]

The default date is 1970-01-01. What does being a day older accomplish?

[Cyberdog]

For those in the western hemisphere, local time zone adjustment means that midnight on 1970-01-01 GMT becomes some time in the afternoon or evening of the day before.