Biography of Hiroyuki Nishimura: The Father of 2channel

"However, Nishimura became desensitized and increasingly apathetic toward the legal actions taken against him. Due to some of the more controversial activities and posts made by 2channel users, Nishimura was served with an impressive amount of lawsuits during his time as the site’s administrator, and lost at least fifty of them by 2008, the charges ranging from libel, defamation, copyright violations, privacy, and personal injury."

Here's one example where Nishimura ignored court orders.

[Defendant Nishimura from 2channel dodges the authorities, refuses to pay damages or take down the libel.]

QUICK RECAP OF THE CASE: From early 2004 onwards, anonymous poster(s) began systematically copying and pasting statements on a Japanese Internet Bulletin Board System (BBS) called "2-Channel", Japan's most popular website, with around one million posts and 20 million hits per day. Said statements were about Plaintiff Arudou Debito, a human rights activist in Japan. Calling him inter alia a "White Supremacist", the posts, which were added to just about any BBS thread regarding foreigners in Japan, attributed to him by name several fabricated statements, such as "he said he supports massacres of Iraqis", "he said he supports discrimination against non-Whites", with the clear aim of impugning his character and damaging his credibility in his campaign for racial equality in Japan.

Repeated requests both by electronic and registered mail were made by Plaintiff and his lawyers to remove these materials from the online archive, but were completely ignored by the founder and administrator of 2-Channel, a Mr Nishimura Hiroyuki. The posts in question to this day have been left up to spread further across the Internet. After Plaintiff sued for defamation of character, Defendant ignored all court communiques, and never appeared in before the judge to offer any explanation or defense. On January 20, 2006, Hokkaido's Iwamizawa District Court ruled in favor of Plaintiff, awarding him 1,100,000 yen in damages for negligence in the face of libel, and ordered 2-Channel to remove all the libelous posts. However, Nishimura continued to ignore court orders, forcing Plaintiff's legal team to take further litigious steps to enforce the court decision.

Source: http://www.debito.org/2channelsojou.html

I can't believe it has taken me until today to realize that shortening it 2chan is a kind of pun, the way you refer to somebody cute and familiar.

hiro please fix /tv/