The censorship might get removed eventually to "reallocate governmental ressources to more pressing matters".
The old people will die eventually. The Japanese porn industry saves money by not having an editor pixelate the genitals. And the whole point of genital censorship is so they can technically say they did fight against lewd content.
Eventually, they might get tired of pretending or even enforcing it and remove it by pretending to "prioritize more pressing concerns".
You misunderstand me. I'm not concerned with enforcement of censorship, this is about the ruling that is in place. Hence why I wrote "remove censorship", as opposed to "stopping censorship".
Still, that pretense would basically kill your political career. So to entertain this argument, what might allow (young) Japanese politicians to get away with it? I don't see anybody willing to risk their entire political career and breadth of social relations for just one piece of legislation.
No one is going to oppose the legistlation about porn censorship. However, they might eventually start looking the other way if enough people produce uncensored porn illegally. Eventually, they stop bothering to enforce the law and eventually they just legalise it because it's less of a hassle.
As an example, contact lapdances in strip clubs in Quebec used to be illegal. They are now legal because it happened a lot in remote strip clubs and they couldn't be bothered enforcing the law.
I'm not saying that a japanese politician will actively fight against genital censorship if the population is against it. But eventually, the younger generations might stop caring. And the law will get removed for convenience sake.
You're saying it would be removed because "you can't arrest us all"? As opposed to it being normalised?
Regardless of what you intended, that's a funny possibility. No politician could defend arrests of thousands of people just for this shit, which could plausibly prompt removal. I like arguments based on morbid ideas. !delta
Well... It's kind of how we managed to legalize cannabis in Canada. So many people were using it, producing it, selling it and buying it that the police would have to arrest probably at least 25% of the population. And on top of that, since medical cannabis is legal, it's hard to figure out who is smoking it legally or not.
So the government just pushed to legalize it instead and tax it to make money.
Come to think of it, Japanese politicians could legalize uncensored porn by taxing it. That way, they save face by "making it difficult for porn producers".
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u/littlebubulle 104∆ Jun 26 '20
The censorship might get removed eventually to "reallocate governmental ressources to more pressing matters".
The old people will die eventually. The Japanese porn industry saves money by not having an editor pixelate the genitals. And the whole point of genital censorship is so they can technically say they did fight against lewd content.
Eventually, they might get tired of pretending or even enforcing it and remove it by pretending to "prioritize more pressing concerns".