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Anime News

Obscene anime news
Date: 11/30/2009
Hundreds of schoolteachers, women's rights advocates and concerned press workers in Taipei are scheduled to march on the Taiwan offices of Next Media Publishing Ltd. today to condemn its new obscene anime news Web site. They believe such news, available on its Hong Kong Web site, which can be visited by youngsters in Taiwan, seriously corrupts our public morals.

None of them are bigoted prudes. They are truly and deeply concerned that obscene anime, paraded as news, would do irrecoverable damage to our teenagers who begin to have interest in sex. The Web site offers anime news on violence in addition to what is considered hard pornography in disguise. Viewers can watch rape scenes and sadistic murder.

It is highly likely, according to an organizer of the protest rally, that those who are not yet 18 years of age would try to ?reenact? the acts they watch on the Next Media Web site. ?And here in Taiwan,? he lamented, ?we don't have any control over it.?

That is true. The Web site is in the former British crown colony, over which our National Communications Commission (NCC) has no control. Were it located anywhere in Taiwan, the NCC could fine it or even have it closed down. We have an obscenity law with which to throw the book at the offender.

Next Media is spearheading neo-yellow journalism. It is making money by muck-raking, sensationalism and now obscenity in animation. The last is a little different from the popular adult or soft-porn manga in Japan? the Hong Kong-based company is using obscene anime for news.

Peng Yun, NCC chairwoman who specialized in freedom of the press, is certain she will be able to stop the wolf at the door if Next Media wants to obtain a license to air its questionable anime news. The company is applying for a number of licenses for going on the air in Taiwan. Some may be granted, she said. ?But I don't think we will give one for telecasting such anime news,? she pointed out.

　　On Taiwan's part, however, nothing can be done to prevent our curious boys and girls at the age of puberty or older from visiting the Web site in Hong Kong. Next Media is a persona non grata in a more prudish People's Republic, where the authorities can censor the visits to the anime Web site in Hong Kong, which is one of its special administrative districts.

　　No censorship is possible in a democracy like Taiwan, however. The only option open to the NCC may be to ask the Hong Kong authorities concerned to force Next Media to remove obscene anime news from its Web site. Or can our imaginative NCC commissioners come up with a better idea to protect our teenagers from the pornographic anime bombardment from across the Taiwan Strait?
Source: China Post