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.

>>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.

>>35
No, it was an epic meme and was tethered to nothing specific due to the inherent falsity of the claims themselves.

>>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.

>>47
There's really no point unless he removed CAPTCHA.

>>46
Back to 8chit, please.