Twitter Now Bans Loli, Shota Content; Japanese Users Retreat To Pawoo

With the new Twitter policy put into effect on February 24th, 2019, the company wasted little time in expunging users from the service hosting such material, which resulted in plenty of Japanese users taking flight to Pawoo.

Some users who follow various Japanese artists on Twitter explained that they saw their follower/following count drop drastically after the policy began being enforced. Pawoo user dotubo1 explained that it was safer to upload his lewd loli art to Pawoo than risk getting banned on Twitter, even though Twitter offered a much larger platform to grow his audience.

If you look at the English language policy, the wording makes it very broad:

For the purposes of this policy, a minor means any person under the age of 18 years. Examples of content that depicts or promotes child sexual exploitation include, but are not limited to:

• Visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit or sexually suggestive act.
• Illustrated, computer-generated or other forms of realistic depictions of a human minor in a sexually explicit context, or engaged in a sexually explicit act.
• Links to third-party sites that host child sexual exploitation material.

This version of the policy specifies "human minor", but don't expect cub content to not be affected. Or artists will just leave anyway.

As part of the broader context, there is this:

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

The UN thing won't affect e621 unless the US passes related legislation. But it could be encouraging global companies like Twitter to crack down.