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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Suddenly 4chan becomes filled with cancer

A tumor getting filled with cancer? Uh oh.

You're wrong about the rest of the stuff you wrote as well. I don't think you understand a) how advanced and deeply-integrated data mining is with the internet and b) how difficult it is to analyze 4Chan posts and get a sense of "X likes Y, buys Z, holds political position A about topic B" even if you can tie IDs to the posts. Linguistic analysis on a mass scale is extremely difficult.

People with the capacity to do that (or in the process of developing it) don't need 4Chan's pitiful amount of data they can't gather from other sources. You see, by crying about this you are confusing the issue. Your data has been gathered. If you're not taking deliberate and complex steps to frustrate data collection, government agencies and various corporations will be able to build a profile of you. They don't need 4Chan's data to do that.