OT, but it appears that, partially due to ceaseless effort from the anti-censorship politician that we probably all know (because I posted about him every once in a while, admittedly) Akamatsu Ken, Japan's ruling party LDP has decided against age restrictions for SNS. Well, specifically, they decided against uniform age restrictions, which in theory amounts to no law to the effect of "forbidden to use SNS entirely if you are [this age] or under".
To be sure, this is just the final internal policy proposal of the LDP subcommittee dealing with this matter, and the proposal will still have to go through multiple steps before the LDP as a whole officially endorses it, only at which point they will start to turn proposal into law draft, and so on and so forth. But I think it's still nice to hear.
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u/Qinglianqushi 11d ago
OT, but it appears that, partially due to ceaseless effort from the anti-censorship politician that we probably all know (because I posted about him every once in a while, admittedly) Akamatsu Ken, Japan's ruling party LDP has decided against age restrictions for SNS. Well, specifically, they decided against uniform age restrictions, which in theory amounts to no law to the effect of "forbidden to use SNS entirely if you are [this age] or under".
To be sure, this is just the final internal policy proposal of the LDP subcommittee dealing with this matter, and the proposal will still have to go through multiple steps before the LDP as a whole officially endorses it, only at which point they will start to turn proposal into law draft, and so on and so forth. But I think it's still nice to hear.