The real story here is: Why is there such huge demand for this perverse behavior in Japan? So yes it is silly to criminalize this, but it is worthwhile looking into why is there such a big audience for "forced 12-yo rape" in Japan in the 1st place.

I work in an ISP in Kuwait and we're obviously affected by this problem.

The FLAG and SEMEWE4 cables got hit by a lowered anchor by some ships that were told to park where they shouldn't. And yesterday and today alot of the traffic has been redirected to go to Singapore and around the other side of the world across the Pacific ocean.

The initial estimate we got of when the cables will be fixed is around 2 weeks (ouch!)