4chan has a new owner "Hiroyuki Nishimura" - Founder of 2channel
Today I'm pleased to announce that Hiroyuki Nishimura, best known as the founder of 2channel, has taken my place as the owner of 4chan.
Hiroyuki is a pioneer in the world of anonymous communities, and can be thought of as the great-grandfather of 4chan. His creation of 2channel in 1999 sparked an era of anonymous-centric web culture in Japan that led to the creation of Futaba Channel, the site that inspired 4chan. None of us would be using 4chan today—or potentially any anonymous image board—if it weren't for him.
I met Hiroyuki in 2011 and we became fast friends, bonding over our shared passion for creating and managing online communities. 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.
4chan sits on the eve of two great milestones—its 2 billionth post and 12th birthday. It has been a great privilege to serve as 4chan's founder and steward for almost twelve years, and I can't wait to see what lays in store under Hiroyuki's experienced leadership.
>>3 Please fix you quotes, by using ">>1-san" you quote >>1-1000 but by using ">>1[i]-[/i]san" you quote only >>1-san.
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Anonymous2015-09-21 18:45
>>2 Apparently there are two boards called 2ch. 2ch.net owned by a weird shady Philipino-based company named Racequeen Inc. lead by a guy named Jim Wilkins or something. It was taken over from Hiroyuki. The other one, 2ch.sc was made out of spite by Hiroyuki and pretty much just mirrors the content from 2ch.net, probably through a scraper. Jim is the owner of 8chan.
This all makes my head spin or maybe it's just the lack of breakfast making me feel light-headed, but I feel like I just lost my footing. I'm probably going to leave 4chan for good, since I don't want my horrible posts to be datamined by hotlink. I'm probably leaving this place too, since it isn't good to begin with. I'm going to do all my pseudonymous socializing on le reddits.
>>7 Inertia? I'm just kidding myself. I don't think I'll ever find a music board as good as 4chan's /mu/. I can live without /a/. /jp/ I've long forgotten, but the music board I'm going to miss dearly. You may disagree if you wish, but that's why I sticked so long with 4chan.
q&a is starting now. he hasn't answered any questions, only said hello and reposted a strawpoll about his nickname.
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Anonymous2015-09-23 0:12
instead of answering a question about his data selling, he asked for a source.
this is going to be a long night.
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Anonymous2015-09-23 0:18
>>15 Why don't they speak English like everyone else?
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Anonymous2015-09-23 0:38
This asshole can't speak English. I can't wait until Trump deports him back to japland and nationalizes 4Chan.
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Anonymous2015-09-23 0:46
OH FUCK HE ANSWERED THE DATA SELLING QUESTION!!!
I'm happy that there is no stupid 4chan users who easily are deceived without any evidence.
First of all, NT technology, which is owned by Jim Watkins, were a hosting company which hosted 2ch.net servers. Also, they provided domain privacy protection services. I used their services. "I" means (Packet monsters Inc. and I) in all later sentences.
One day, their credit card servers were cracked. The 2ch pass service was made by Zero Inc. and NT technology. They secretly stored user’s credit card numbers and users personal information. And, Crackers leaked those information.
I didn't have any access to the 2ch pass servers. And I’ve never known that they stored such information on their servers. After the leaking, they wanted to make 2ch pass again. But I couldn't trust them so that I declined.
And, they were almost bankrupt. So, Jim stole 2ch.net domain and systems. It is what happened.
If they don't tell a lie, they can explain that "Who gave or sold the domain and system to you?" "Is there any evidence like a contract?"
There are no such evidence because they stole.
Actually, I have sued them in Japan. The lawsuit starts on Nov. If I do illegal things, why wouldn’t they sue me? Instead of that, I have sued them because they are liars.
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Anonymous2015-09-23 0:52
will you sell user data and jew 4chan?
me no speaky englishes good to now wat is date mean
When a jap pretends he can't speak English, you know he is scheming to jew you
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Anonymous2015-09-23 4:23
>>31 WHAT DATE DO WE HAVE, ANON? WHAT DATE DO WE HAVE? It's an honest question though, what can you possibly obtain from 4chan posts (that google can't already obtain)?
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Anonymous2015-09-23 5:56
dubs
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Anonymous2015-09-23 10:36
>>32 Presumably nothing, it's just an epic meme that he stole "data" from other BBSs and sold it.
What he should do is can the Google code from the site entirely and use 4Chan's traffic to develop scalable anti-bot tools that don't require fucking CAPTCHA. I mean, it is the perfect opportunity since there is massive and varied traffic and it doesn't really matter if it takes some testing since the site is utter shit at the best of times. Such tools, once perfected, could be released as a SaaS and earn enough money to remove the incentive for jewery.
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Anonymous2015-09-23 12:14
Presumably nothing, it's just an epic meme that he stole "data" from other BBSs and sold it
>>36 actually, even though i don't much trust hiroshima, i can't help but feel fucking annoyed because now 8ch has a fucking link at the top of every board telling about how they know that he'll sell user data.
fucking faux activist bullshit that no-one will read.
