Japanese cops have announced they have filed charges of promoting drug dealing against Hiroyuki, the infamous founder of Japan’s megaboard 2ch.net.
Police have announced they have filed charges of promoting the sale of narcotics against 36-year-old 2ch founder and former administrator Hiroyuki Nishimura.
The charges relate to a series of 2ch posts made in 2011 which police allege led to the sale of illegal drugs. Police say the board failed to delete the posts as they requested, and is therefore guilty of promoting their sale.
Whether merely failing to delete a handful of drug-related posts from the millions on 2ch at any time constitutes abetting the sale of illegal drugs looks likely to be the subject of a protracted trial or swiftly dropped charges, as it seems police would already have arrested him if they considered their chances of securing a conviction through evidence or “confession” good.
Hiroyuki himself has long since given up being directly involved in the board’s administration (he instead directs an opaque array of Internet companies), but is widely reputed to continue pulling its strings – and is most probably the end recipient of bulk of the considerable revenues the site generates.
The administrators of 2ch are notorious for ignoring takedown requests and legal threats, although they do comply with at least some requests and police seem to have effected any number of arrests based on posts made to the board.
Despite this reluctance to comply with legal requests, Hiroyuki has however in recent years taken to using claims of copyright infringement to close down 2ch-based sites he disapproves of, and appears to enjoy plenty of legal counsel.
On 2ch itself there is no small suspicion that the police are hounding Hiroyuki for his refusal to put moderation of the board in the hands of Japan’s notoriously incorruptible and tech-savvy cops:
“Seriously?”
“Serves him right!”
“They finally got him…”
“What? All this because he left the drugs board alone?”
“Poor Hiroyuki. And despite our cops being totally useless…”
“Since when does failing to delete a few online scribbles constitute abetting?”
“Funny that they didn’t arrest any of the celebrities being paid to promote fraudulent auctions on their blogs of late.”
“If they can arrest him for this, they can do mobile phone carriers and ISPs as well… it’s messed up.”
“This is extreme. I bet they end up dropping the charges.”
“They don’t lift a finger to stop most online crimes, and now this?”
“You might as well arrest the police for failing to impede the drug smugglers.”
“Really suspect – you’d think the entire admin staff would be arrested, but they just go after him?”
“The cops basically just want to take out 2ch.”
“Same as with Horiemon. They want to make an example of those who defy the authorities.”
“Our cops just love trying to make examples of people who don’t obey them in all respects, don’t they? The same reasoning would have them arresting the leaders of half the infrastructure companies in the country, but they don’t for some reason.”
“Next up, Japanese police arrest the creators of Twitter.”
“It’s about time they held this guy to account, he obviously runs 2ch.”
Umm…so the guys on 2ch are writing against the founder on 2ch??
With the same logic, Bill Gates should be charged with child pornography since some people use his computers to distribute it.
Not deleting posts = crime
Cop molesting children = not crime
Fuck you, NPA. You let sexual predators in schools and your own force walk free with so much as a slap in the wrist everytime they got caught, you prosecute defenseless commoners for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and you let yakuza run loose so much that it contributed to Japan’s own stagnatic domestic economy. Police all over the world are corrupt to a degree, but you lot some of the ones sitting at the utmost bottom of the barrel.
Seriously, fuck you, NPA.
Holy we have nothing else to do police.
I’ll go to 420chan if I want an imageboard about drugs.
Drugs? How stupid, if anything they should be targeting prostitution rings using 2ch for business. Oh wait, that would affect them.
Serves him right.
The guy wanted to make anonymous posts his property and called “copyright infringement” over blogs like SanCom for copypasting 2ch content.
Now it’s time to take responsability for what anon posted.
Moon government is bad and Moongoons should feel bad.
Blaze it faggot and commit sudoku
Who’s that cutie girl in school outfit?
Oh god what. 2ch’s creator looks like this…
moot is so much cooler.
I love moot and all but this guy actually looks socially acceptable to more than just /b/tards.
2ch is seriously some serious drugs, especially its VIP part.
Japan has too many old men running the country. It’s good that they kept the tradition, however they also ignoring what the younger generation really needs. So, if Japanese became herbivores it is the older generation fault at the beginning.
That’s mainly because there are very little young people to speak of. Considering most people don’t go into politics, that makes a proportionally smaller population of young politicians.
The Japanese population is old.
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/handbook/c02cont.htm
>In 2011, aged population (65 years and over) was 29.75 million, constituting 23.3 percent of the total population and marking a record high. This percentage of elderly in the population is the highest in the world.
So? 2ch IS drugs.
Sounds like some trumped up charges they made up just to extort money.
Agreed. I really hope he tells them to go fuck themselves and fights this hard.
The Japanese have gotten way too ‘respectful of authority’ for anyone’s liking.
Don’t know how to say what I want to say atm. If the people were using his forum services for an extended period of time in those illegal trades I can see how this can be done maybe.
“Hiroyuki has however in recent years taken to using claims of copyright infringement to close down 2ch-based sites he disapproves of, and appears to enjoy plenty of legal counsel.”
Does he also trying to take down 4chan too ?
“Next up, Japanese police arrest the creators of Twitter.”
This made my day ^
Good luck with that they’re in the US.
Sounds like someone forgot to pay their protection this month.
Iy Yi Yi SEN^IOR IiiEEEE! That is the quote of the millenium. Anyway, wait thats a GUY IN that photo up there? WHAT?
He doesn’t even look like a girl, man…
Isn’t it funny that japanese cops have time for dwelling through 2ch but not for going outside, walk across the street, and take down the yakuza?
Funny how no police department in the entire world stops mobsters. You realize the mafia is very close to municipal and sometimes even higher authorities, right? You don’t arrest the guys who pay you. That’s their game and they play it very well.
The latter would require actual work and risk of personal injury on their part.
It seems sometimes cops can be complete cowards.
They wouldn’t arrest their own colleagues. The Japanese police is just one branch of the yakuza.
We see a lot of fear thrust toward the Yakuza in the West, but it’s far too integrated in society now to do anything about it without threatening the entire peace of the country. It was partially the police’s fault for not being able to stop them before they got so big, but I can’t blame them for not being able to do much about more than a few thug yakuza dropouts now…
Just a reminder, he is also the director of the companies that created niconico.
Sweet Jesus!!!
(http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/?no=13516)
Hooray to Toraburu Darkness bluray screenshot!
Thanks.
Didn’t know there is a Japanese version of SanCom
SanCom is an English version of hundreds (if not thousands) of Japanese blogs of this type. Yaraon is just one of the popular ones.
just like shitaku, only less gay
You meant you didn’t know SanCom was a english version of Yaraon…
Oh, please. They’re stupid, corrupt nip cops. He’ll bribe them and then he’ll be on his way.
Rate this down, but you know it to be true.
What a shame.
Had they put him away before 2chan was conceived, the internet would’ve been a less retarded place.
You realize 2ch and 2chan are two vastly different websites, right?
Why gaijin_san call “Futaba” “2chan” ???
Not as retarded as the people who post which ask the question who is more retarded those who created 2ch or those who criticize it.
You would think that but no, the internet will never stop being being retarded. Sad world we live in.
It is so true I wish I could use the red text on this.
The Japanese police are actually more corrupt then the notoriously corrupt US police.
Search your feelings, Luke.
Use dat force
may the schwartz be with you
Rate your mother down.
the end of 2ch?
We should be so lucky.
We’d be luckier if your crappy posts stopped appearing.
Surely you mean crappy posts like YOURS, Anon 22:01.
Joke’s on you, cunt. The fact your post has been downvoted to oblivion simply proves that its true.
Why the hell is this comment marked as bad?
Are you guys retarded?