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Puts this quote in a new light:

>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.

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The Japanese government payed him to take down politically sensitive posts on 2channel[1]. He's probably the worst person to put in charge of a community according those who were subjected to him in the past.

[1] http://www.anonymous-japan.org/fake2ch/

Seems to me a number of the highly visited communities are going down this path.

The paranoid side of me wonders if this is just a formalization of data collection that may already exist on 4chan.

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