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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by arpstick on Monday September 21, 2015 @12:15PM (#10253233)
The Japanese government payed him to take down politically sensitive posts on 2channel[1]. He's probably the worst person to put in charge of a community according those who were subjected to him in the past.

[1] http://www.anonymous-japan.org/fake2ch/

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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by talmand on Monday September 21, 2015 @01:08PM (#10253621)
Seems to me a number of the highly visited communities are going down this path.
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Re:Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken owners... by Torgo on Monday September 21, 2015 @12:48PM (#10253485)
The paranoid side of me wonders if this is just a formalization of data collection that may already exist on 4chan.
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