Buyout of the 2ch

An article is contributed to the Tokyo Sports today(10/14, Japan Standard Time), a newspaper mainly touching sports and other popular topics. It is the acquisition of the 2ch by the "Livedoor", a recently famous company in pursuit of M&A and IT businesses. The story was formerly referred to in the "Aera", a magazine published by Asahi Newspaper, one of the most famous and popular newspapers in Japan.
The Livedoor effervesces all over the country of Japan now as a protagonist of re-organization of Japanese professional baseball. And Takafumi Horie, the CEO of Livedoor became a man of news these days. His frequent views and riches on TV provoke various reflections from antipathy to yearning. Thus far at least his frank attitude and dress-down attire itch the feeling of establishment in Japan, which was the stumbling block for his participation in the Nippon Professional Baseball Association.
Horie, bought out "Shitaraba", a BBS service managed by Kensu, a friend of Hiroyuki, the owner of the 2ch. Kensu is going to be a clerk of Livedoor next year.
Hiroyuki was worked as a consultant for the Pro-G, the former legal person of Livedoor. The surmise of buyout conveyed in the articles of Aera and Tokyo Sports is based on their relation cultivated at that time and the buyout of "Shitaraba" whose manager is a friend of Hiroyuki.
But this buyout will turn out to be a simple rumor, because the managing circle around Hiroyuki never wishes for such a buyout by Livedoor, because it will evoke the total change of managing staffs, i.e., their loss of position. The managing circle enjoys the succulent profits out of their position, therefore this buyout is out of the question for them(@wSniff

Invasion of Korea(@wSniff

One of the most pervasive taboos in Japan is the Korean Taboo, a tendency among mass medias to refrain from the criticism or negative evaluation to Koreans and the country of Korea, conspicuously seen in reporting the names of Korean culprits committing crimes in Japan, namely announcing their Japanese names. This tendency has been brewed up through the stubborn and tenacious opposition from the Korean groups in Japan and pervasion of Koreans in mass media. After the second world war, from the Korean peninsular the discriminated people visited and settled down in Japan in fact most of them came to Japan spontaneously, however they maintain they had been carried to Japan coercively, which has been their alleged reason for requiring rights and favorable status from Japanese government. Some of them were in pursuit of pachinko parlors, namely casinos to earn a huge amount of money and in result they occupies a certain status in Japan.
In the 2ch, this kind of taboo was totally ignored and even the commentary that partook of racial discrimination against Koreans could be freely expressed.
But, the paradise of speech was suddenly threatened by the treason of Hiroyuki Nishimura, the owner and supervisor of the 2ch. Hiroyuki Nishimura determined to adopt a Korean company NAVER as the service provider for the part of the 2ch services from the viewpoint of costs. However from the viewpoint of freedom of speech, this decision was open to suspicion in that the NAVER is the affiliate to the Samson Group, one of the Korean Giant Economic Groups, especially sponsored by Korean government. The Korean government can collect information about the posters who are con Koreans and the policy of Korean government to Japan through the IP-addresses. Even though there does not exist apparent thwart of con-Korean speech and postings, traceability of posters is quite deterrent to the freedom of speech.
I, as the representative 2channeller(poster of the 2ch) who was televised and introduced so nationwide in the program featuring the 2ch, expressed apprehensions about the threat to the freedom of speech in the 2ch. See the details in the below-linked webpage written in Japanese and its subsequent pages linked in it.

http://ch.kitaguni.tv/u/310/0000006522.html

The purport of my opinion was never based on racial discrimination, but on the sound formation of opinions in Japan, to keep it intact from the influence and interference of outer powers. Especially, in the formation of opinion in the field of countermeasures to Koreans and the Korean peninsular, the interference of Koreans is bound to cause unsound formation of opinions unduly deflected from the profit of Japan.
Just after the adoption of the NAVER, there happened an onslaught to the ZERO corporation in Sapporo, the former total service provider for the 2ch by scoundrels in the name of demanding deletion unfavorable to them. I suspected this was done by the gangs wirepulled by Korean government and Korean groups in Japan.

To Owner's Perplexity(@wSniff

Hiroyuki Nishimura is the owner and supervisor of the 2ch, 27 years old at present. He graduated from Chuo Univ in Japan and studied English abroad in US immersed in the pragmatism and American way of life spiritually and materially. He was a fervent participant of the Amezo Bulletinboards(AB), once a famous and major internet bulletinboard service webpage. When Amezo, the owner of AB got reluctant to continuing the service by the whirl of events desponding him such as the DOS attacks with the cracking software like Dukes and his own abduction by a group of discriminated people indignant at the postings on AB, Hiroyuki launched the 2ch and attracted the participant clientele in the AB. After the collapse of the Amezo Bulletinboards, the "Diadochoi War" began, namely the successors of Amezo Bulletinboards vied for the hegemony on the world of Japanese internet bulletinboard service, however Hiroyuki's 2ch obtained the helm favored by the series of scandalous events such as the Bus Hijacking Case in Fukuoka by a participant of the 2ch who was provoked and molested on the bulletinboard.
Now the 2ch became the most famous and populous bulletinboard in Japan, but in the course to the glory there have been many stumbling blocks. One of them is the continual litigation caused by the postings on the 2ch, and almost all of them resulted in the defeat of Hiroyuki and the vast indemnification amounted to 22 million yen, namely 0.18 million US dollars at the present exchange rate.
Another teasing matter is the "direct actions" by the opponent groups against the 2ch. These days a right-wing group named "Dainiho Aikoku Seigi Juku"(Patriot Political Justice School of the Great Japan) rebuked not only Hiroyuki and 2ch but also main operating staffs. They announced to go to Kofu, where Hiroyuki's father is relegated in the affiliate Tax Office and to reprehend him for his bad education to his son Hiroyuki. This behavior is quite erratic from the viewpoint of individualism, however Hiroyuki's father is a public servant and the Japanese culture sometimes admits of such behavior to reproach the parents for their adult kids.
According to the news, Hiroyuki's father got hospitalized when they distinguished their "feat", however the reason of hospitalization is unknown(@wSniff

Rape Rave in 2ch(@wSniff

In the 2ch, there exists "offline meeting bulletinboards(OMB)" consisted of 3 bbs', where participants in 2ch contact each other for holding offline meetings. Recently the news courier bulletinboard(NCB) of 2ch has tackled with a rape case brought about through the human relationship in the offline meetings.

http://news13.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/news/1096904640/l50

As is mentioned above, the thread(the set of responses posted under a theme) has been extended to the 94th session, and a breathtaking truth is disclosed. Namely one of the opinion leaders of the thread misguided and misled the argument with the unjust information manipulation
based on the pursuit of his own profit concerning a 2ch goods sales circle.
I have reprehended him from the beginning on account of his no consecutive attitude and unnatural leading of opinions, however he turned out to be to blame(@wSniff

First Throw(@wSniff

To begin this weblog, I express
the direction. I am a user
of a Japanese collective BBS named "2ch", which distinguishes the heaviest access in the current field in the world. The 2ch showed a quite interesting function in Japan, namely as
the medium of secret information
or that of real voices among
Japanese society out of the sift
and riddle of Mass Media's information censorship. This role was based on its anonymity, namely the absence of record about the IP addresses that could identify the poster.
However, recently the 2ch announced its IP-address recording and the advantage of anonymity is abolished at present, which caused expulsion of posters contributing secret information as the deep throats. Of course the posting without handle name in 2ch is even now possible, but the poster's IP-address is recorded. The anonymity in this sense is the absence of identifiability by way of IP-addresses.
Obliteration of anonymity in the sense of untraceability deprived the 2ch of its savor. The noname postings have simply
become redundancy, full of Ascii
Arts(the picture drawn with Ascii code:http://aa5.2ch.net/mona/).

This weblog features the events and news around the 2ch and the Japanese internet scenes.