>>4690476It is not just shouting "freedom of expression", like I said here
>>4690437 countries have been fighting Hollywood's "western influence" for a long time with restrictions like forcing Netflix to have 30% of their catalogue be domestic made to operate in their country, this in turn keeps the domestic industry chugging along.
The point is to pass things that will allow the Japs to be creatively independent from the West and to safeguard their creative freedom from being owned by foreign streaming services that show up with money.
Right now Netflix and other streaming services are going to Japan with sacks full of money in exchange for exclusive content, the worry is that they will force censorship both in the Jap domestic market releases and in the US one as to not damage the brand, like how Square made some changes to their games both in the US and Japan releases on the advice of consultants in the US.
