Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg at the request of the prosecutor’s office, he banned the distribution of the next batch of cartoons and films on the territory of Russia. This was reported by the united press service of city courts.
“Harmful to children“the following projects are recognized:”Dante’s Inferno: Animated Epic“(Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic), “Space: Territory of Death“(Dead Space: Downfall), “Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge“(Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge), “Happy tree friends“(Happy Tree Friеnds), “Attack of the Titans. Film One: Cruel World“(Shingeki no kyojin/Atack on titan).
Here is a quote from the conclusion of experts dedicated to “Attack on Titans”:
“The footage includes scenes incomparable in cruelty: naked titans tear people apart and devour, devour children, rivers of blood are shed, before the final scene of the film, a depressing mood of powerlessness and hopelessness hovers in it.”
Watching Mortal Kombat allegedly renders “motivating exposure to aggressive, auto-aggressive or self-injurious behavior“. The ending of the cartoon” Space: Territory of Death “experts sayextremely pessimistic“They also claim that the Happy Tree Friеnds parody project is aimed at”children’s audience“and also hurts”spiritual and moral uprising“(literal quote).
The fact that the films had age ratings (18+) was ignored. The basis was the links leading to Youtube and RuTubeas well as portals Smotret-multfilmi.net, My.lordfilm.to, Vseseriipodriad.ru… At the same time, the film “Attack of the Titans” was shown in cinemas in Russia without any problems.
Since last year, the St. Petersburg courts have launched a crusade against anime, which allegedly harms the psyche of minors. The absurdity is that law enforcement officials ignore the existence of a rating system at the legislative level in Russia. Petersburg, on the other hand, became the main center of decision-making.
Then Roskomnadzor steps in. Recently streaming service “Kinopoisk HD“forced to delete removed anime from my library”Tokyo ghoul“(Tokyo ghoul), which also fell under the ban.
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