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title: The new so-called "law" against insults isn't as dystopian as you think
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author: 寮
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date: 2022-06-30 18:30:00
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tags: blog,politics,technology,privacy,anonymity,censorship
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threadid: AL0fvPn1K3qKSjVpr6
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While the whole world got worried about the new artificial "law" that bans insults, be reminded that Japan is only strict on paper, but in reality it's like a dog barking out loud with no teeth to bite with.\
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Even if you don't anonymize yourself, if you're just saying something like "Kishida is an asshole" once on [Shitter](/glossary#shitter), but otherwise never appear in the mainstream media (and if you do, you're not being painted as some kind of Adolf Hitler Jr. with a MAGA cap and a Russian ISIS flag), then I really doubt they'll even bother with you.\
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Even in a country where police has barely anything to do, they'd rather spend their resources on something more important, like having lunch at Mr. Donuts.
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Of course best is to keep yourself anonymous, because they WILL put up examples to keep the population in check.\
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These examples usually consist of state actors anyway, but what I do expect to happen (at least, I hope so) is that Japanese people become more privacy aware again.\
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Since the raise of Shitter, LINE, [Instantkilograms](/glossary#instantkilograms), [Discucked](/glossary#discucked), [JewTube](/glossary#jewtube), TickTock, and the rest of the evil platforms, the people here have completely forgotten to keep themselves up to date about privacy risks.\
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On the one hand everyone rightfully so hates it if you make photos of people's faces without hiding them, and absolutely refuses to get a MyNumber card, because both are serious privacy concerns, but on the other hand they have absolutely no problem at all signing up on millions of services that require a valid phone number (and there are no pre-paid SIM cards with valid phone numbers here in Japan, mind you), and have certainly no problem doxxing themselves to JewTube for a 10 yen a year ad revenue, because "I have nothing to hide".
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So artificial "laws" like these will only make people more curious about privacy, and will turn to information on sites like [テクニカル諏訪子](https://technicalsuwako.moe) and [アノニマスの見解](https://anonymous-japan.org) (I could say my website as well, but this site is entirely in English, so I don't think they'll use me as a reference) as well as domestically developed and hosted pro-privacy services at [076 AIB](https://076.moe) and [Fedibird](https://fedibird.com/about/more#sec-8) to guide them to more privacy, and more importantly, more anonymity.\
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So I can see light shining at the end of the dark tunnel, if the Chinese and Cubans are able to wake up, the Japanese eventually will too.
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