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2ch also offered a paid post deletion service used by political parties when Nishimura was running it, after the 2ch coup he scraped the site and started 2ch.sc

This is the guy who runs 2ch/8ch https://twitter.com/xerxeswatkins

Puts this quote in a new light:

>He is one of few individuals with a deep understanding of what it means to provide a digital home for tens of millions of people for more than a decade. There is nobody more qualified than Hiroyuki to lead 4chan, and I can't think of a person better suited for the task.

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/

Seems to me a number of the highly visited communities are going down this path.

The paranoid side of me wonders if this is just a formalization of data collection that may already exist on 4chan.

Is there any source on this?

http://www.anonymous-japan.org/fake2ch/

moot making sure his users are looked after. Nice.