4chan has a new owner "Hiroyuki Nishimura"

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.

–moot

also from https://8ch.net/who.html

I read that N.T. Technology sold the user data of 2channel users, is this true?

No. Hiroyuki Nishimura, the previous administrator of 2ch.net, did that. You can read more about Hiroyuki and why he was fired by Jim here:

http://8ch.net/newspaper/res/3.html

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/2ch_Chronicle

Most primary sources are unfortunately in Japanese.

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You are incorrect in the way you characterize the advertisers and the trackers. They do not think like you and I do. We see information as a way to gain something more, be it understanding, insight, or to obtain a goal. They seek information as an end in and of itself. They have a pathological need to slurp up as much data as possible. They are data junkies. To them, the quality doesn't matter, only quantity. They dump their data in the pits of their data centers and run the latest data mining code on it, then they go back for more. They are like pigs at a trough. They will gorge and gorge on the food in front of them until they are so fat that they can't move, at which point they get to enjoy the bliss of having it shoved into their mouths. It's almost a sexual drive with these people. Do you think Google operates all these free services just to sell pixels on a webpage? Of course not. They sell ads as a side benefit to collecting all this data.