They're also going to be shutting down eHentai too in months from now as I type this.
If you don't know the full story, apparently both eHentia and ExHentai are hosted in The Netherlands and the Dutch authorities have been cracking down on many websites that host lolicon, shotacon, and other anime-related and manga-related material that they deemed offensive so as a result the people that run both of those websites are now shutting them down for good and now many of the anons are archiving everything they can before it is all gone.
Now you can all laugh at these people for freaking out all you want but as for me I think they have a right to be scared because this isn't a story of some private tech corporation censoring or banning someone that posted something that they found to be offensive because this is a government that decided to declare that they no longer have the right to express themselves anymore and so they will take away that voice away from them now.
Now you can go ahead and make fun of and ridicule the people that are into lolicon, shotacon, and other fetishes out there but this also brings up a very important question; will it really stop here?
What I'm about to say may get all of the moral busybodies here have their panties in a twist but I don't want stuff like lolicon or shotacon or the many other anime-related and manga-related fetishes to be banned for the same reasons why I don't want those edgy memes from 4chan's /pol/ or even places like Kiwi Farms to be banned either by some moral busybody especially if it's a government run by a bunch of idiots that don't really know how the Internet works that gets to decide on what you can or can't browse on the Internet in general.
So going back to my question. will it really just stop at stuff like lolicon and shotacon? Go ahead and laugh but the same thing can also happen to places such as 4chan, 8chan, Kiwi Farms, Bitchute, LiveLeaks, and so on getting wiped clean from the Internet by a government all because of a bunch of really stupid and ignorant power hungry politicians that think that they know better than you as they slowly erode away your rights in all.
To defend freedom of expression then you also have to defend the people that you disagree with too.
No one likes it when some private tech corporation bans content or people from their service because they said or posted something offensive but doesn't really hurt anyone and especially no one likes it when a government decides to do this too.