The Japanese government is planning to legislate regulations of “harmful” Internet content. Now, Liberal Democratic Party‘s Sanae Takaichi is preparing to pass an Internet censorship law.
Now several groups are acting against the legislation.
Microsoft, Yahoo, Rakuten, DeNA, and NetStar made an official statement against the legislation. One of the leaders of this action is Masanori Kusunoki (@masanork or mkusunok at hatena, both in JP), a deputy CTO of Microsoft KK.
MiAU (JP) (Movement for the Internet Active Users) is a vocal political NPO acting against the abuse of copyrights and Internet censorship. They are acting against the law too.
WIDE project made a statement in English too. WIDE is a leading Internet research group in Japan.
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Shunichi Arai