General consensus among channers is that this is a bad thing, primarily because of Hiroyuki's shady history - he was ousted from 2ch after selling user data and

General consensus among channers is that this is a bad thing, primarily because of Hiroyuki's shady history - he was ousted from 2ch after selling user data and offering to delete content in exchange for money - clients allegedly included government officials. For more info see here, if you can tolerate reading reddit with 4chan CSS - https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/3lt1gv/4chan_is_now_owned_by_hiroyuki_nishimura_founder/cv90w1r https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/3lt1gv/4chan_is_now_...