Reflections on the Black Basket Coercion Incident

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Since last year, activities related to "Kuroko's Basketball" (hereinafter referred to as "Black Basket") have been coerced and intimidated, and many activities have had to be temporarily suspended or even suspended. In this month, the Japanese convenience store 7-11 and the black basket linkage of the chemical food, because of the threat of poisoning, 7-11 had to remove the goods from the shelves, and even TSUTAYA was threatened, and all the products related to the black basket in TSUTAYA's physical stores before November 3 were also taken off the shelves.

In this case, the motives of the prisoners are self-evident, but is there one person or more than one prisoner who sent the threatening letter? Is there an imitation of crime? None of this is clear, and although the official approach to the incident has been taken coldly, the problem is that as the incident has become protracted, the official cold treatment has not solved the problem, and even fueled the arrogance of the perpetrators. Under the public evaluation system of modern society, if someone is killed if they ignore the threat letter, can the relevant enterprises and operators be aware of this responsibility and face the saliva of the public and society? Moreover, this will also lead to a decline in the social evaluation of the work of the black basket itself.

However, companies such as Sanshodo Bookstore, ジュンク堂 Bookstore, and Kinokuniya Bookstore also received threatening letters, but these three stores did not make a decision to remove the black basket-related products from the shelves. What will be the outcome of this differing response to threatening letters in the future? No one knows, but it's best if nothing happens.

Now let's think about the problem of "risk socialization", in today's Japan, there is no need to detonate a bomb, and a small threatening letter can turn the whole society upside down, although the example may not be appropriate, but think of the 911 back then, the hijacking terrorists did not even carry a firearm, and only relied on a knife to make the towering World Trade Center collapse to the ground.

President Bush at the time of signing the Patriot Act

Our current society is so overwhelmed that a small mouse can lead to the collapse of an entire society, and the 911 incident seems to be a reminder that human society has ushered in a "fragile" era. In order to deal with this dangerous "rat" in society, the United States formulated the Patriot Act, and the popularization of information technology in society after 911 was used by the hijackers, and now they don't even need a knife, as long as they use the computer to enter the flight system remotely and let it lose control, they can complete their hijacking plan.

The information society is already vulnerable, and what is even more terrifying is that "risk socialization" will make society evolve from the stage of "presumption of innocence" to "presumption of guilt", and social credit will be wiped out. President Bush's proud work "Patriot Act" state control is indeed terrible, but what is even more terrible is the "personal coercion" of modern society, in fact, this black basket coercion incident can also be said to be an alternative variant of "media control".

Fortunately, Fujimaki-sensei, Shueisha, and MBS did not intend to give in to the prisoners, and in today's world, it is not only the executive power that can control the media, but also those who dare to challenge the law and public morality can control the media on their own.

I still hope that the Japanese police can do something and end the farce of the "black basket coercion incident".

J: I've heard a conspiracy theory about this before, first of all, it's a hype, and it's also a way to curb the large number of fanworks, because the intimidation that started after the first season has almost wiped out all the Black Basket ONLY shows, and all the Kuroko's basketball booths on Comiket have closed. I didn't expect it to be the same in the second season, and it became more and more intense.