Murder threats rampant on Internet since Akihabara stabbing case

Sunday 29th June, 03:19 AM JST

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DenshaDeGO at 04:39 PM JST - 28th June

An increasing number of people have posted on the Internet threats to commit mass murder and other crimes

Pathetic, loser copy-cats.
kenchan at 05:10 PM JST - 28th June

Pathetic, loser copy-cats.

more like sad attention seekers...these people must have no friends or anyone who cares about them and just sit in their rooms pretending to be something worthy via the internet...I actually feel sorry for them
Betting at 06:17 PM JST - 28th June

Seems like there are a lot of mass-murderers waiting in the cupboards in this country, that have been waiting for something to happen so they can come out. I agree with Kenchan, we should feel sorry for these people.
KaptainKichigai at 07:16 PM JST - 28th June

It seems like the cops are waking up and jumping on it.
faulkmore at 08:52 PM JST - 28th June

Who is threatening that the cops will wake up and do something?? Cops and hard work; what does that mean in the same sentence?? Who wrote that? Who read it and agreed with it??

Cops do they even have PCs in their kobans?? Have you seen the insides of a police bldg?! You think 90yo men are going to police the forums??
namabiru4me at 10:22 PM JST - 28th June

if the media reported more the people getting questioned and arrested for making these threats, there would be less. If the charges were making terrorist threats and carried a severe punishment or sentence, there would be less. If there was a hotline to report threats like this, there would be less. There are a lot of things that can be done to reduce the amount of threats and possible actions by copycats.
DeepAir65 at 12:29 AM JST - 29th June

These guys/girls should be hunted down and made to pay the police time when they are caught.
tomico at 02:25 AM JST - 29th June

But not all crime declarations lead to the author’s arrest, the officials said, citing lack of cooperation by Internet providers due to privacy concerns.

There should be a law against that comment stating that if there is a threat to harm anyone mentally, physically, or otherwise in these Internet Postings, the people in charge of these sites should be either shut down, fined, and or made to comply fully with law enforcement officials or quite possibly all of the above.

Having these Internet Providers say sorry we can't because of privacy concerns is BS. When someone posts these comments in terms of Cyber Bullying and or threatening someone in general with malicious intent, I would have to say you violated your rights to even use the service provided.

I really can't believe these Internet Providers would be so ignorant let alone quite possibly be stupid to let this go on like this.
haytkayokomiya at 07:36 AM JST - 29th June

Has anyone noticed the increased police presence in the train stations since? May be this was a tragic wake for call for a very lax law enforcement organization.
borscht at 08:32 AM JST - 29th June
tomico,

While I fully understand why internet providers should cooperate with the police in preventing murder and mass murder, I think they are reluctant to cooperate for at least two reasons.
1. They have promised users not to divulge their names to anyone. Privacy is important. If suddenly their clients' names, addresses, email addresses, credit card numbers and other private information were to be made public, the internet provider would lose all their customers.
2. What is to prevent the police from asking about a 'criminal' based on their political rantings? i.e. Big brother swooping in because of something you said against a politician or government decision.
On topic, I think those who post threats of copying Kato are sad and pathetic loners who want some attention - even if it is the police. They'll have something to say the next time they find themselves with a group of people. Sad yet strangely understandable given how society deals with 'different' people.
GJDailleult at 11:41 AM JST - 29th June

It's too bad that in addition to citing the one 2channel case, the writer didn't say how many of the 300 postings were made on 2Channel, and how many were made on other sites. Is this happening all or mostly on 2channel or is it going on on lots of other sites too?
tomico at 11:46 AM JST - 29th June

On topic, I think those who post threats of copying Kato are sad and pathetic loners who want some attention - even if it is the police. They'll have something to say the next time they find themselves with a group of people. Sad yet strangely understandable given how society deals with 'different' people.

borscht, I agree with that statement you made. I know privacy is very important especially in today's day and age. But the only thing that would be made public would be the name of the individual(s) responsible. I never heard of credit cards and such being made public involving cases like this. Usually stuff like that is made confidential and only associated with those involved such as law enforcement and the like. I mean look at how fast myspace.com totally complies every time there's a nutcase on there site.

The last one I heard was about this girl who got so harassed she committed suicide. You can find some more about it here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24652422/

Thanks to that case Missouri (where this happened) legislators gave final approval to a bill making cyber harassment illegal. You can read more here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,367255,00.html

Really, however this should be done everywhere.

Everyone should at least instill some sort of common courtesy and some respect to other people. Some of things that I think the human race is really starting to lack if we haven't already. It's shocking to me, is that I thought Japan was really high on those type of things (common courtesy, respect, honor, etc.), I mean what happened?
betterdays at 07:20 PM JST - 29th June

The problem is the media,,, they sensationalised the Akihabara kilings and some fanatics took it the wrong way
damexicanbuda at 04:02 AM JST - 30th June

Privacy? Privacy my ass! Once you post on the internet that you have the intent to kill, it should be not only illegal, but these idiots who are begging for attention should get all the attention they want at the nearest jail or prison until they get it through their thick skulls, that what they are doing is EVIL, killing is EVIL! Posting evil messegages on the internet is EVIL too.
whyamiinjapan at 01:24 PM JST - 30th June

DeepAir65, betterdays and dameixcanbuda, I agree with you all 100%. All threats should be taken seriously, investigated and punished correctly according to the circumstances.