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NEWS: eBay Announces Restrictions on 'Adult' Anime, Games, Manga

DerekL1963 wrote:

No, it's not. They're broadly banning adult content. They're not banning the vast majority of either anime or manga. The weeb community is taking this way out of context, and ANN is just stoking the fire.

Yeah... I'm not sure why this was made to look like an attack on anime or something, and ANN had to know what the reaction would be like. The actual notice from ebay (linked at the bottom of this article) has only one line about anime; this is mainly about regular old porn and smut mags.

Since hentai is a thing that exists, it makes sense they'd mention it, but it's not being singled out or misrepresented. And, well, Rightstuf still sells and openly promotes that stuff regularly. Who buys hentai on ebay, anyway?

DerekL1963 wrote:

No, it's not. They're broadly banning adult content. They're not banning the vast majority of either anime or manga. The weeb community is taking this way out of context, and ANN is just stoking the fire.

Yeah... I'm not sure why this was made to look like an attack on anime or something, and ANN had to know what the reaction would be like. The actual notice from ebay (linked at the bottom of this article) has only one line about anime; this is mainly about regular old porn and smut mags.

Since hentai is a thing that exists, it makes sense they'd mention it, but it's not being singled out or misrepresented. And, well, Rightstuf still sells and openly promotes that stuff regularly. Who buys hentai on ebay, anyway?

It's unfortunate but I can see their logic. eBay is worldwide and laws for explicit content vary widely. For instance a manga that can be legally purchased in the US would get the buyer thrown in jail in Australia. eBay would be potentially liable as the medium for exchange.

DerekL1963 wrote:

No, it's not. They're broadly banning adult content. They're not banning the vast majority of either anime or manga. The weeb community is taking this way out of context, and ANN is just stoking the fire.

Yeah... I'm not sure why this was made to look like an attack on anime or something, and ANN had to know what the reaction would be like. The actual notice from ebay (linked at the bottom of this article) has only one line about anime; this is mainly about regular old porn and smut mags.

Since hentai is a thing that exists, it makes sense they'd mention it, but it's not being singled out or misrepresented. And, well, Rightstuf still sells and openly promotes that stuff regularly. Who buys hentai on ebay, anyway?

This reeks of payment processors or non-North American governments (the Eurosphere varieties, along with AU, & NZ are full of anime hating political tyrants)

Looks like LiveJournal market groups will make a resurgence soon, eh. That's how I bought some of my old Yaoi doujinshi was through LJ sale posts and the (very unstable and hackable) PayPal of the day.

There used to be a LiveJournal for EVERYTHING. Every anime community and sub-community had a LiveJournal and people sold their things on these communities but they all seemed to port over to other sites and then just die off.

But yea...I suppose this change shoots the idea of my selling some of my older Doujin off then.

The bad thing is "yaoi" (the term) became a generalized term for English as just BL manga in the US.

I have a very bad feeling that ebay is going to end of flagging a lot of things they just have zero idea wtf they're flagging; and I think it's really crappy that they still allow PORN SPREDS (Sports Illus.) to be sold but not other things. If they're going to ban the content, they need to ban ALL the adult content not just pick and choose.

Wouldn’t their wording "items showing sexual activity, sexual content or sexually suggestive poses" technically cover things like Game of Thrones box sets? Or do they mean that sentence only to apply to things like the listing photos?

When you start going "Look! Those places banned raunchy material! We should be worried about them banning not-raunchy material!"... Yeah, no. That's exactly the type of unwarranted handwaving freak out-ery I'm talking about.

The company defines nudity as "showing any part of male or female genitalia, anus, or female breasts where the areola or nipple is visible;" "modeled clothing that is see-through or very tight and shows human genitalia, the anus, or the nipple/areola of female breasts;" "male erections, even if the model is clothed;" and "people engaged in sexual contact or activity."