rip sadpanda -

[VV 422]

so exhentai is shutting down in an hour or so
there's a thread pinned on /h/ and the people replying to it might be the saddest group I've ever seen online. imagine being this invested in hentai:

/h/ - PANDA BACKUP NOW - Hentai - 4chan

PANDA BACKUP NOW - "/h/ - Hentai" is 4chan's imageboard for adult Japanese anime hentai images.

boards.4chan.org

 

[Rand /pol/]

What the fuck is "panda"? What does a type of bear have to do with your weeb porn? Why does this thread exist?

 

[AbyssStarer]

That's too bad, they had CGS from games and a lot of porn

 

[UQ 770]

What the fuck is "panda"? What does a type of bear have to do with your weeb porn? Why does this thread exist?

Its a zoo exhibit except the animal in the cage is dead and rotting. Hope you came to look at maggots and flies.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

Dammit it had to happen while i was away from laptop. If I could have made sadpanda work on my phone I'd be making everyone proud with these heroes.
Edit: a screenshot of this tragedy's fallout.

 

[break these cuffs]

Why can;t you faggot weebs at least jerk off to people?

 

[Commander X]

Well, a lot of people who visited didn't even care about the porn, because it was also host to a lot of non-hentai material as well, like artbooks and such, some of it otherwise hard to find, or obscure. The hentai probably all has backups somewhere, so who cares about that, but it was literally the only source for a wide variety of countless artbooks and references that are out of print and would cost hundreds of dollars second hand if you can even find a physical copy.

 

[School of Fish]

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, LiveLeak, 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.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

The hentai probably all has backups somewhere, so who cares about that, but it was literally the only source for a wide variety of countless artbooks and references that are out of print and would cost hundreds of dollars second hand if you can even find a physical copy.

Imagine a world; where weebs will have to risk spiderbites, mold, their tissue-thin fingertips, & allowance/tugboat money, digging through crates & boxes at garage & estate sales, or on questionable auctions or in book stores with employees that may or may not be eyeing with bad intent (their prices pointing to other businesses)....

Or maybe they'll discover the joys of obscure mailing lists, that can only be found if you know someone who knows someone who knows someone, or seen randomly stapled to poles outside defunct YMCAs.

Being a true weeb or comic sperg used to take dedication & risk!

 

[JM 590]

and now all the hentai sites are dying

you LIED to us gronald grumpf

 

[Commander X]

A lot of non-H stuff was uploaded to that site no one in the West would've seen otherwise and i think having that kind of hub for things no official translation would ever be made for is a good idea. Material that was never going to be reprinted, material that was obscure or "too old" supposedly to be of interest to anyone or whatever reasons - and I'm one of those "support official artists" people but at the same time where else could you easily find material like books that were sold at 2000s era Comikets and such. Though ideally, you would be able to find these at a site that also didn't have lolicon/freakish doujins.

 

[UY 690]

Better save those Space Dandy artbook bros. We need to save history.

 

[Dom Cruise]

And the internet gets a little worse and a little less free.

It fucking sucks.

 

[betterbullocks]

As long as hanime is fine, I'm fine

 

[Kenya Jones]

Well, a lot of people who visited didn't even care about the porn, because it was also host to a lot of non-hentai material as well, like artbooks and such, some of it otherwise hard to find, or obscure. The hentai probably all has backups somewhere, so who cares about that, but it was literally the only source for a wide variety of countless artbooks and references that are out of print and would cost hundreds of dollars second hand if you can even find a physical copy.

Holy shit I didn't know that sad panda was used for anything outside of disgusting pornographic material

 

[Autismo]

Fuckin’ lolicons ruin everything

 

[Traveler]

Holy shit I didn't know that sad panda was used for anything outside of disgusting pornographic material

Yeah it's almost like they're real people interested in something other than jerking off too, strange huh?

 

[School of Fish]

Better save those Space Dandy artbook bros. We need to save history.

That's another thing too. The people that ran eHentai and ExHentai also allowed a lot of non-NSFW content on their service too. They archived a lot of really rare video game-related stuff and not to mention artbooks and other anime-related and manga-related stuff that is really hard to find anywhere else.

So the way I see it, The Netherlands not only took away someone's voice but they also totally destroyed a really important Internet archive for people to see for themselves.

Fuckin’ lolicons ruin everything

They didn't though. eHentai and ExHentai hosted that type of content and The Netherlands decided to use the United Kingdom's playbook and so they went full United Kingdom on hentai websites that are hosted in their country like this.
'You got a loicence for that mate?'

 

[Takodachi]

Save us @Null You are our only hope.
According to Maximum_Joe, the Panda database is around the double GB digits, if only Tenboro could stop being such a cop out cunt and look for a different host, all this could be prevented.

 

[Uranus Pink]

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.

It won't stop as the moral busybodies will ban everything, this is just another notch on the belt for them.