This is a complete list of websites banned in Nintendosia by their ministry of culture.
Nintendosia's internet laws are infamous for being very strict about intellectual properties. As a result, they would often ban sites that feature copyrighted content. The most infamous example is Scratch, which during its ban, resulted in many requests to unban the site, which was eventually accepted in 2020.
Ban list[]
Website | Category |
Banned |
Reason(s) | Note(s) | Lifted |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lemmy's Land | Fansite | 1998 | The site used Mario characters, which are copyrighted. | Unbanned in 2022 after popular demand. | 2022 |
Search engine | 2008
at 7:80 PM |
Banned by accident. | The site was later unbanned an hour later. | 2008
at 8:80 PM | |
Pouetpu-Games.com |
Flash games | November 6th,
2012 |
The Flash games hosted on this site contain assets from Mario games. which are copyrighted. | www.Pouetpu-Games.ntsia isn't banned, though it is only used for non-Mario games. While most Nintendo fansites were unbanned in 2022, the unbanning of Poueptu-Games.com is very unlikely, as the site's domain isn't renewed, and therefore, now direct to an unrelated webstie of the same name. | |
4chan.org |
Imageboard | December
2012 |
Mature content. | An image of Yotsuba saying "This site is not available in your country" appears when visiting the site in any web browser besides Google Chrome. Unbanned in 2022 after Nintendosia's unban on mature content. | 2022 |
Softendo.com |
Fan gaming | January 1st,
2013 |
Not only their games feature copyrighted material, but also contain malware (at least for Softendo). | Unbanned in 2022 after popular demand, though links to New Super Mario Forever are still banned as an anti-malware measure. | 2022
(partially) |
MFGG.net |
February 14th, 2013 | However, they need to go into
MFGG.ntsia instead, which is now related to Monkeys, being renamed to Monkey's Fun and Good Games. Unbanned in 2022 after popular demand. |
2022 | ||
Deviantart |
Art
submitting |
March 15th,
2013 (partially) |
The site is still accessible, but mature content and fetish art were considered inaccessible. | Clicking on an inaccessible art results in an error saying "This art is not available in your country". Mature content was unbanned in 2022, whereas fetish art reamins banned. | 2022
(partially) |
Emuparadise | ROM site | March 30th, 2013 | The site contains ROMs, which is deemed illegal.
LoveROMs also contains malware. |
Going onto these sites results in an error saying "Thank you Mario! But your ROM site is in another country!". Unbanned in 2022 following popular demand. | 2022 |
LoveROMs | |||||
WowRoms | |||||
themushroomkingdom .net |
Media | April 1st, 2013 | Copyright issues. | Unbanned in 2022 after popular demand. | 2022 |
Scratch.mit.edu |
Programming | May 9th,
2013 |
The site was later unbanned in 2020 following request from several DFW users. | 2020 | |
PornHub |
Pornography | June 2013 | Pornography. | Unbanned in 2022, though several ISPs and free Wi-Fi services (especially those from public building) still banned the site. | 2022 (partially) |
Somethingpedia |
Wiki/forum | November 2013 | The real reason is unknown, but it may have something to do with things like adult content and copyright issues. | Unbanned in 2020 after popular demand. Most Nintendosian users of Somethingpedia created Nintendopedia as a result of the ban. | 2020 |
Vinesauce.com |
Streaming | April 2014 | Profanity | ||
Twitch |
September 2015 | Later unbanned, though streamers could be marked for inappropriate language, which therefore block access to some streams in Nintendosia. | 2022 | ||
YouTube | Video Submitting | August 2016 | The site is still accessible, but age-restricted videos (as well as fetish videos) are inaccessible. | Age-restricted videos unbanned in 2022, though fetish videos remained banned. | 2002 |
Mario Making Mods |
Modding | August 2017 | Copyright issues. | Unbanned in 2022 after popular demand. | 2022 |
SMWCentral |
Hacking | 2018 | The site was later unbanned following many requests from SMWCers, though in accordance, Nintendosian moderators were added to permaban users who posted ROM files in either the hacks section or their filebin, unless if such files are homebrews. | 2022 | |
Miracle Service.com |
Film/Video company & services | June 16, 2018 | Banned due to the Ministry of Culture reported that the Miracle Service Studios was reusing the blood content. | The website is not banned yet on the URL: miracleservice.co.ntsia
That URL doesn't feature blood content on the site. |
|
Furaffinity [dot] net | Art Submitting | 2020 | When the ministry of culture saw a rant of the site made by LucianoTheWindowsFan, the Nintendosian News reported that over 100 fetishes were uploaded to the site and that lots of furries used this site for uploading fetishes. The site was banned in favor of a sub-domain called Nintendoaffinity.net where "no fetishes allowed" was added to the rules | Unbanned in 2022 after popular demand.
Though fetishes remained banned. |
2022 (partially) |