Japanese Police Charge 2channel Founder Over Forum Posts

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 20, 2012 @10:54AM from the but-the-food-is-great dept.

identity0 writes "According to Japan Probe, Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of 2ch.net, has been charged with drug offenses by Japanese police over a forum post made on 2ch in 2010. He is not even accused of making the post, but of failure to have moderators delete it. The post apparently discussed drugs. 2ch.net (also called 2channel) is Japan's biggest forum, with over a million posts a day, of which the post in question was one. The site inspired image board 2chan.net (but is not directly related to it), which spawned copycat English site 4chan.net. More info at Slashdot Japan, if you can read Japanese."

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holy f*** there is a slashdot japan? by musikit · 2012-12-20 10:58 · Score: 5, Funny

shiranakatta!
1. Re:holy f*** there is a slashdot japan? by oodaloop · 2012-12-20 11:04 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I guess that answers my question as to whether anyone else was surprised by that. I will say this, though. Once translated into English, that site is hilarious.
  
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Re:So why not arrest all the moderators? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-20 11:16 · Score: 3, Funny

Because computers are hard.
Let's go bake cookies for the boys