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Australian Senator Stirling Griff railed against anime in an impassioned Senate speech on Wednesday, calling for a sweeping review of the genre in the country for inappropriate material including child exploitation.

“The rape of children is abundant in manga, like the series Goblin Slayer, which, in my office, we showed to a number of people today and they were absolutely horrified,” said Griff, who also cited Sword Art Online, Eromanga Sensei and No Game No Life as anime with particularly egregious content.

Australia has strict policies against child exploitation, as it is illegal to produce, possess, or distribute material of a minor that is pornographic or abusive. Griff stated:

The law in Australia is very clear. The Commonwealth Criminal Code prohibits the sale, production, possession and distribution of offensive and abusive material that depicts a person, or is a representation of a person, who is or appears to be under 18. It is unambiguous. It beggars belief how it passed through the classification board who, in their decision report, provide justification for scenes including ‘upskirting’ as comedic. There is nothing funny about it. It is repellent. The series should have been denied classification and should be banned.

He went on to state:

I'm calling for the immediate review of all Japanese anime movies currently accessible in Australia. I am also seeking the banning of particular titles I have referred to and, indeed, any other anime and manga featuring the abuse and exploitation of children, very much as a matter of urgency.

Buzzfeed reporter Cameron Wilson obtained a copy of the motion Griff sent to the Senate, which calls on the Federal Government to review how its classification board reviews anime and calls for the removal of "child abuse material."

The full transcript of Griff's speech can be found on Kotaku.


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AtlasJan

STOP THE BOATS ANIME

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Paradoxed

This story is sad to see and yet another example that we are living in an alternate timeline, but I can't help but think there must be an interesting story about how this clueless politician stumbled upon anime, and in particular some of the most riske' ones released recently. Did he one day snoop on his weeb son's internet history and found him watching these? Did he hear someone say the word anime, and wiki-searched it and went directly to the "controversies" section? I could speculate all day.

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Braneman

The only sane way to do this would be to commission a comic where he investigates this sort of thing. That way you're dealing with the problem on level with and in proportion to the problem. Otherwise he should be trying to arrest Sylvester Stallone for assaulting cops in "First Blood".

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Revic

If he's all that concerned about how these minors are being treated, shouldn't he dispatch the police or whatever the country's equivalent of DFS/CPS is to check up on them?

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GamerDLM

Because they aren't real people, he's trying to get a ban because anime features predominantly high school age characters.
Granted Australia is kind of well known for banning anything even mildly controversial so this is pretty par for the course.

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mandrac

Wait until you discover that australia doesn't have any law or amendment to protect the freedom of expression.

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Andytainment

Clearly he can't distinguish which is real and fiction.

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Matarael, Angel of Rain

How in the depths of Tartarus that shit becomes a senator?

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VPhantom

Why care about real children abuse if we can waste resources and energy regulating fucking fictional children, amrite?! (sigh Politicians truly are bunch of fucking cunts, no matter which country you go to)

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Jerach

Alright let's place some bets. How long until the senator is found out to be in possession of child pornography or to have sexually solicited minors?

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Andytainment

And you are the one toi bet my money…
IF I HAD ONE

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Kenetic Kups

The only one with any relevance is eromanga sensei, and anything by that degenerate
everything else mentioned is moronic

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