It's an issue outside japan; if I federate with an instance that allows this content, Mastodon will mirror that media. While in Japan certain images might be legal, in my country they are very much a greyzone I don't want to risk as administrator.

> Anything that isn’t photography is freedom of speech in Japan

There was a lot of censorship during the Fukushima nuclear disaster by the government.

Never heard of such conspiracy theory before...

I did not imply that there was anyone conspiring. It feels like that word has been overused in order to silence any opposition in the past few years.

https://rsf.org/en/news/rsf-urges-japan-stop-pressuring-medi...

https://cpj.org/blog/2014/04/journalists-in-japan-face-threa...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/27/the-silencing-of-japans...

http://mediashift.org/2017/06/tsunami-nuclear-disaster-media...

https://www.dianuke.org/now-fukushima-darkness-japans-secrec...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Secrecy_Law

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/whistleblowers...