CATDOLL: The Ministry of Culture cracked down on violent and terrorist animations and many animation websites were investigated and punished

Just today, it was reported that LeTV had removed Sword Art Online from its shelves. The Ministry of Culture officially released new news. Tudou, Youku, iQiyi, LeTV, Sohu, Kumi, Tencent Video, etc. were included in the list of investigations for allegedly providing online animations that contain content that induces minors to commit crimes and exaggerates violence, pornography, and terrorist activities. Some animations describe the production of explosive devices, some are bloody, and some rely on pornography to attract attention. If this standard is followed, I am afraid that a large number of animations will be removed from the shelves due to the approval of the Ministry of Culture. For example, there is a plot of violent terrorist attacks in the work Tokyo Rumble. The editor hereby recommends that the serialized animations in the future should be completed as much as possible to avoid being removed from the shelves and unable to be watched.

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The following statement is from the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China:

The Ministry of Culture recently issued the 23rd list of illegal and irregular Internet cultural activities for investigation and punishment. Youku, Tudou, iQiyi, LeTV, Sohu, Kuaishou, Tencent Video and many other animation websites were included in the investigation and punishment list for allegedly providing online animation products containing content that induces minors to commit crimes and exaggerates violence, pornography, and terrorist activities, thereby endangering social morality.

The Ministry of Culture stated that it had previously carried out a special campaign to combat the vulgarity in the online animation market, investigating and punishing 19 animation websites. This campaign of rectification is a continuation and expansion of the previous work.

It is reported that there are three main types of illegal online animations investigated this time:

First, it contains violent and terrorist content, promotes the idea of ​​fighting violence with violence, glorifies violence, terrorist attacks and criminal activities, and describes in detail the use of firearms, the production of explosive devices and the methods of committing crimes. For example, "Tokyo Resonance" describes a teenager who creates a terrorist explosion in retaliation against the country, and even steals nuclear weapons materials to make bombs, declaring that he will "pull the trigger at the world."

The second is that the images are bloody and horrifying, which makes normal people extremely uncomfortable. For example, "Blood-C" describes a girl fighting a monster and contains a lot of blood spurting, broken limbs, and beheading scenes, among which the blood spurting shots are particularly bloody.

Third, it uses pornographic elements to attract attention and has a vulgar tone, such as "High School of the Dead", which skirts the line of obscenity and pornography and clearly violates the bottom line of social morality and public order and good customs.

The Ministry of Culture also criticized by name Tudou.com, which ranks high in the domestic ranking, for spreading 12 online cartoons that seriously violated regulations and received over one million hits; Kumi.com, which is targeted at young children, provided eight online cartoons that seriously violated regulations, such as promoting violence, terror, pornography, and endangering social morality, with extremely bad influence.

According to the "Interim Regulations on Internet Culture Management" and the "Regulations on Internet Audiovisual Program Service Management", online animations must not contain content that induces minors to commit crimes and exaggerates violence, pornography, gambling, terrorist activities, or harms social morality.

In the next step, the Ministry of Culture will focus on carrying out special training for heads of Internet cultural units, deploy comprehensive law enforcement agencies for cultural markets in relevant regions to investigate and punish the websites involved in the case in accordance with the law, and improve the "blacklist" of illegal animation companies.

Among the video websites suspected to be investigated in this operation, Bilibili is listed:

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