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The article ends implying the Japanese media is wrong by downplaying and leaving out the name of the church, but when I was reading more on wikipedia about the
by Herodotus38 4y ago
The article ends implying the Japanese media is wrong by downplaying and leaving out the name of the church, but when I was reading more on wikipedia about the Unification Church they referenced this article from the media, which I will need to translate but would seem to refute this:
https://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/97322 https://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/97322
For those who are in Japan is that a good take by the author of the submitted article? Is (edit: it fair to say) the media hiding the connection?
- elcamino44 4y agoI am in Japan, have been watching the news, and this is the first time I’d seen the Unification Church named as the motive. My impression has also been that the domestic media is downplaying the connection.
- ETHisso2017 4y agoGendai is regarded in Japan as a "tabloid" (think National Enquirer). So the mainstream media in Japan can be accused of hiding the connection. More explanation here: https://twitter.com/wdavidmarx/status/1545956836310159360 https://twitter.com/wdavidmarx/status/1545956836310159360
- Herodotus38 4y agoThank you, I am sure there is a lot of context I don’t understand as an outsider.
- numpad0 4y agoNaming a cult on media is a taboo in Japan, for fear of retaliations and verbal abuses than as common courtesy. There even used to be a P2P app called Perfect Dark, known in a... different... name early on, so as to make it 'immune to police prosecution'. Eventually the name changed to what it is, and stories of police working on it did start appearing. That was 2010s.
- pppq 4y agoWhat was the previous name of Perfect Dark?
- distantsounds 4y agoit was called "Share" and before that there was WinNy, a fork of the WinMX p2p client.
- numpad0 4y agoIt was a four letter name that I’m not comfortable posting here…
- pppq 4y agoSorry, I don't understand. Why is it uncomfortable to name a piece of software?
- numpad0 4y agoOh no. I failed to include that part in the original comment. The logic was that the name(think “LordVoldemort.exe”) cannot be aired or published, so authorities cannot communicate arrests to the public, which makes it moot to do so, thereby shielding the users.
- tsol 4y agoSo would something bad happen if you posted the name..?
- 0dayz 4y agoPerfect dark still exists.