NHK Gives In To 2ch Intimidation

[Mulboyne]

This all went off last year, apparently.

[floatr][/floatr]Asahi: NHK buckles under anonymous Net harassment
The message board posters declared victory. Their relentless personal attacks and threats under the anonymity of the Internet forced NHK to cancel a female commentator's appearance on a radio program... A 45-year-old man was arrested in late February on suspicion of intimidating the target of the online attack: Hiromi Ikeuchi. But the arrest has not ended Ikeuchi's nightmare, which started with seemingly innocuous comments on her own Web site last October...Ikeuchi...posted a blog entry about a group of young temporary workers...She wrote that she met them at an izakaya pub and described them as lacking ambition...The first barrage of complaints about Ikeuchi's comments were posted in November on 2channel...The online insults soon spread to Ikeuchi's family members and her work...Her personal information, including her home address, became public knowledge on 2channel. She once found a man carrying a camera with a telescopic lens trying to take a picture of a member of her family near her home. Ikeuchi alerted the police...more...

[AssKissinger]

Those people don't even care about her comments they're just getting her to get her. Ijime. That's just classic Japanese meanness. It's crazy how out of control they get when that mob mentality starts raging. I know all cultures have their dark sides and meannesses but the Japanese really do have their own special blend of evil. Fuck, they can be nasty.

[Mike Oxlong]

The anonymity blows. Sneaky rat behaviour. I've seen all sorts of locals all aggressive when they think nobody knows who they are (like in traffic). Confronted, they turn tail and run. Legacy of bushido my ass!

[American Oyaji]

I think that 2ch days are numbered because of this.

[Choeki]

I thought this sort of thing was limited to Korea (ala kehdoong girl), but it seems that the Japanese have finally given into it.

However, I suppose if the J-police were really serious, they could probably hunt down harassers one by one quite easily but she's not quite important enough to tie up resources.

[Takechanpoo]

[Mulboyne]

[Marvin Feltcher]

It's a bit off topic, but both Ikeuchi and Kim have been a huge help to me over the years, albeit indirectly through the weeklies. I've directed a number of people to Ikeuchi's services and it's sad to see her getting such a rough deal. I hope things work out for her soon.
Kim, who I have talked to a few times and am always struck by his immediate demands for money, was the darling of the English media in Japan for a brief while a few years back, but I rarely see his name anymore, even in Japanese. It was fun to see him mentioned again.

[6810]

Again, off topic but on topic with regard to meanness and cowards.

The uyoku rolled into town for a lunch break on sunday, just ahead of some local election campaigning.

The fuckwits that got out of the bus were the kind of dudes you see on constructio n sites (Trust me, I have no beef with construction workers perse at all, by and large they do a good job) and a couple of tubby otaku types.

Upon alighting, they slinked around to the convenience store to by some kara-age or whatever, looking around to see who was watching and if they had been noticed coming from the trucks.

Fucking uyoku - extreme message coupled with extreme cowardice.

Losers.

Oh and same to the 2ch cowards.

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: Net defamation hits record high in '06

The number of defamation cases on the Internet reported to police across the nation hit a record high of 8,037 last year, according to the National Police Agency. The number increased 39 percent compared with the previous year. Among them, the number of criminal cases filed for alleged libel damage charges also hit a record high of 57 last year. Particularly problematic is the number of defamation cases involving bullying and other problems among middle and high school students. In some cases, victims refused to go to school or attempted suicide. But the people behind the defamatory messages were identified only in some cases, resulting in concerns over effective ways to cope with the flood of verbal abuse from anonymous Net users. According to the NPA, the number of cases in which police were asked to provide consultation on defamation on the Internet was 3.5 times higher than five years ago at 2,267. The number of criminal cases filed last year in connection with alleged defamation in which the substance of the defamatory statements were claimed to have caused damage to the plaintiffs stood at 53, while those for alleged insults without such details stood at 4. The total number of cases exceeded the previous record of 51 in 2003.

Although consultations were made on defamation involving work and male-female relationships, a senior NPA official said that cases involving minors, such as middle and high school students, were the most prominent. In one case, slanderous messages about a third-year middle school boy in Sendai flooded an online bulletin board from September to October. At the request of his school, the operator of the site deleted the messages. But instead of solving the problem, the situation escalated. Police began investigating and several students, identified from communication records as the senders of the slanderous messages, were sent to family court. But the boy became truant and eventually transferred to another school. In Yamanashi Prefecture, a high school girl upset over being called a "nuisance" on a blog attempted suicide. In Kagawa Prefecture, a high school student who slandered his classmate was arrested. Last year, Tomakomai Police Station in Hokkaido took the unusual step of requesting a board of education to give thorough instructions on students' behavior as nearly half of its cases involved middle and high school students. The Kanagawa prefectural police also distributed local school guidelines on such matters as how to ask Web site operators to remove problematic messages. The police said they would handle serious cases, but other cases could be handled by schools or the concerned parties.