| It's truly very sad to see a country full of censorship. My condolences, Russians, maybe one day things will get better. |
| Which “systematic placement of materials containing information propagating non-traditional sexual relations and/or preference” is this guy talking about? lol |
| I guess mal for russia becomes the equivalent of reddit in my country. Vpn it is then for the russians. |
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Some people got friends in high places.... |
| I respect Russia for being based though this is a simple case of use a vpn. Looks like japanese media is being further restricted outside Japan which is nothing new. Steam recently banned some fanservice games, and pixiv added more countries to their restricted mode which btw even the USA is on that list. Freedom is a cute little myth. |
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| Quiet easy nowadays for russia to block western websites with the ""propagating non traditional sexual preferences"". Lets make every website our (insert some: alphabet >shit<) safespace to bann the internet from russia (Шучу, ребята). |
| Freedom in Russia? What's that they never of heard it. Who cares it's just an anime site lol. |
| The power of yuri was too much for them. They had to detain it quickly before anymore of their citizens find it and become fellow yuri worshipers. This war isn't over as it's only a temporary solution. |
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| nothing better than some state sponsored censorship |
| I'm so sorry russiabros, my queerness was too strong. |
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| Really fuckiing ironic they banned it for "LGBT extremism" when the userbase of the site is incredibly transphobic and I can't even exist on this site without having people tell me to commit suicide. |
This post is brought to you by your local transfem gamer goblin. Will not tolerate bigotry and will fight against "anti-woke" sentiment to make the anime community a safer place.  |
| This site doesn't even seem relevant enough to be banned to be honest. |
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| I guess there were too much Yuri and Yaoi contents on this site for them to handled. |
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| Kremlin will survive this but if they ban Steam and Counter Strike, there will be a March of Justice 2 and this time Lubyanka will burn |
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Russian authorities have banned the world’s largest anime and manga platform MyAnimeList over “extremist” LGBTQ+ content, state media reported Tuesday. I don't remember MAL promoting any such content. In fact MAL mods even lock down any threads related to LGBT. Did they only check threads where Yuri Crusader was posting huge ass yuri images /s |
Reply to Zarutaku
Which “systematic placement of materials containing information propagating non-traditional sexual relations and/or preference” is this guy talking about?
lol
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| Perhaps he saw my new signature 😂 XMGA030 said: Russia hates hitler with a supreme passion and banned everything having to do with him. And yet it's a dangerous ultra-nationalistic empire, similar to the Third Reich, how ironic 🙄 |
ZarutakuOct 31, 1:18 AM
| I'm that Russian Siberian lately, hello everyone. And I still find it weird because anyways 99% of people here don't speak English. Eventually, you know, people don't lose anything after mal got banned. And I just go with vpn, as always🤷. |
| ❤️🔥Fairy Tail❤️🔥 |
| When I get chipped in the future, I'll pay extra to install VPN right away... Actually, can you install VPN for someone who still hasn't got out of their mom's uterus? Really curious about that. On a serious note, they have a similar site called Shikimori over here, so I guess they don't need MAL anyway. That being said, I'm never getting anywhere near that thing, ugh... |
RudeRedisOct 30, 2:31 PM
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Reply to Zarutaku
Which “systematic placement of materials containing information propagating non-traditional sexual relations and/or preference” is this guy talking about?
lol
lol
Zarutaku said: Which “systematic placement of materials containing information propagating non-traditional sexual relations and/or preference” is this guy talking about? You've probably figured it out already, but adding any BL/GL material to the database automatically triggers that condition. So, yeah... |
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| Imagine living in a country that bans sites like MAL... Authoritarian governments in big 2025... |
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| @Exhumatika hasn't been around today, with a little luck a VPN is too much of a hurdle for him. |
| Who, cares. People that I work with (who in the majority are 20-35+) don't even watch Anime, and don't even like Counter-Strike. Instead, they got me into Ready Or Not game. This is pretty much what's popular, at least in this field of work (although their modders got rid of all the American things and replaced them with everything Russian, including professionally done voice-over dubs, a bunch of anime girl wall posters, stickers, etc). Good stuff never gets censored when it's done the right way. |
| isn’t this a site with a lot of transphobes? Really though, that sucks for Russia. Being queer isn’t a choice, it’s something you’re legitimately born as and can’t control. I should know, I’m lgbtq+ myself. I’m sure things will get better someday Also, if you’re trans, gay, lesbian, ace, nb, anything like that seeing this, you’re strong and valid, keep going! |
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Who, cares. People that I work with (who in the majority are 20-35+) don't even watch Anime, and don't even like Counter-Strike.
Instead, they got me into Ready Or Not game. This is pretty much what's popular, at least in this field of work (although their modders got rid of all the American things and replaced them with everything Russian, including professionally done voice-over dubs, a bunch of anime girl wall posters, stickers, etc).
Good stuff never gets censored when it's done the right way.
Instead, they got me into Ready Or Not game. This is pretty much what's popular, at least in this field of work (although their modders got rid of all the American things and replaced them with everything Russian, including professionally done voice-over dubs, a bunch of anime girl wall posters, stickers, etc).
Good stuff never gets censored when it's done the right way.
Exhumatika said: Good stuff never gets censored when it's done the right way. …I mean, All Quiet On The Western Front was censored in Nazi Germany, and virtually all books were banned in Maoist China including Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche was apparently banned in the USSR. Self-censorship overall is antithetical to quality. You cannot say a work keeps its qualities if either its ideas or delivery is affected by censorship. You can’t cut a random 5 minutes from a film and not expect it to impact quality in some way, nor does turning those five minutes into something more subtle or subversive a negligible action either. |
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| @KittenCuddler I would be careful about throwing "sieg heil" into any discussion of russia. Russia hates hitler with a supreme passion and banned everything having to do with him. |
| @PeripheralVision It's up to each country's culture. LGBT should never be globalized (just like many other current-gen liberal values); it's up to each individual and should never be on a national scale of things, let alone a priority (like in some countries). |
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