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Japanese Police Charge 2channel Founder Over Forum Posts

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. So why not arrest all the moderators? by Skapare · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So why did the police not arrest the obvious culprits ... all those moderators, each of which failed to delete that straw in the hay stack.

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    1. Re:So why not arrest all the moderators? by lgw · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Even more fun: according to TFA, the guy they're charging sold the site some time before the post in question was made. He created the site, but wasn't in charge when this happened.

      2Channel organized a protest against Fuji TV, who responded by running scandal story about 2channel being used by drug dealers. I guess if you annoy the media in Japan you expect prison time? Any Japanese /. readers care to clue us in here?

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