{"id":103829,"date":"2021-05-21T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=385699"},"modified":"2021-05-21T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T07:38:00","slug":"ebay-officially-bans-sale-of-adult-only-anime-manga-and-video-games-including-items-featuring-suggestive-poses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2021\/05\/21\/ebay-officially-bans-sale-of-adult-only-anime-manga-and-video-games-including-items-featuring-suggestive-poses\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay Officially Bans Sale Of Adult-Only Anime, Manga, and Video Games, Including Items Featuring \u201cSuggestive Poses\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"MediaIntel.Asia\"<\/a><\/div>\n

eBay has announced that it will be officially banning the sale of most Adult-Only content from its marketplace, including anime, manga, and video games aimed at mature audiences, in order to prevent customers with no interest in these items from \u201ceasily accessing them\u201d. Source: My Hero Academia Ep. 23 \u201cShoto Todoroki: Origin\u201d (2017), Studio Bones
\nAccording to the new \u201c Adult Items Policy \u201d, which is set to take effect on July 15th, 2021, eBay will soon prohibit \u201cSexually oriented materials, including items containing nudity and displays of sexual activitys [sic]\u201d from being sold through the popular online auction house.
\nThis sweeping ban will cover a wide range of materials, including images of \u201cmodeled clothing that is see-through or very tight\u201d, sexually explicit \u201canime, comics, books, animation, manga, hentai, yaoi [and] video games with a rating of Adults Only 18+\u201d, and any media containing \u201csexually suggestive poses or sexual acts\u201d. Source: Kill la Kill Ep.3 \u201cJunketsu\u201d (2013), Trigger
\neBay also warns that they reserve the right to take a number of administrative actions against those found to be in violation of this policy, including \u201cadministratively ending or canceling listings, hiding or demoting all listings from search results, lowering seller rating, buying or selling restrictions, and account suspension.\u201d
\nYet, the ban will not be without its exceptions, as eBay noted that \u201cNude art listings that do not contain sexually suggestive poses or sexual acts\u201d will still be allowed, as well as \u201cSex toys and sex accessories\u201d.
\nCuriously, a number of adult magazines, such as \u201cPlayboy, Playgirl, Playguy, Mayfair, On Our Backs, Butt (magazine), Blue (magazine) Gayletter, Fantastic Men, or Penthouse\u201d, will also be exempt from the ban, though eBay gave no concrete reason as to why. Source: Dragon Ball Super Ep. 4 \u201cBid for the Dragon Balls! Pilaf and Crew\u2019s Impossible Mission!\u201d (2015), Toei Animation
\nAt the bottom of their new policy, eBay explained that they had chosen to move forward in this direction in order to \u201cmake adult items available to those who wish to purchase them and can do so legally, while preventing those who do not wish to view or purchase these items from easily accessing them.\u201d
\nThis sentiment of \u2018public safety\u2019 was echoed in a statement provided to Vice by an eBay spokesperson, who asserted that the policy was adopted to maintain \u201c a safe and trusted marketplace. \u201d Source: Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn\u2019t Exist Ep. 11 \u201cTechno Break\u201d (2015), J.C. Staff
\nAs of writing, how eBay\u2019s policy will be enforced remains wholly unclear, as it is unknown whether this policy will only apply to specifically pornographic material or also to material that just happens to incidentally contain the prohibited content, such as Berserk or Ranma \u00bd.
\nFurthermore, this lack of clarification presents a worrying situation regarding which entity will be responsible for determining which items do or do not fall under these classifications. Source: Berserk Ch. 47 \u201cWound (2)\u201d (1994), Hakusensha
\nMany of these classifications, such as what poses are \u2018sexually explicit\u2019 or what is considered a \u2018sex act\u2019, are highly subjective.
\nHowever, the policy as written appears to allow any given moderating entity the power to pick and choose which items to ban according to their own personal appraisals, a prospect which could leave eBay sellers constantly looking over their shoulders.
\nWhat do you make of eBay\u2019s new policy?<\/p>\n

This data comes from MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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