Police ask websites to delete posts on gas used for suicides

Thursday 01st May, 11:06 AM JST

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Ultradude at 10:38 AM JST - 1st May

It is the same as attempts at banning the Anarchists Cookbook or MeinKampf - the info is out there, you can't take it back. Hey, let's hide sex manuals and kids won't have sex. If people want to end thier lives, alternative methods abound. This just makes the police look good to people who haven't thought about it.
Zaphod at 10:47 AM JST - 1st May

There is also information on the internet on how to build a nuclear bomb. Isn´t that a tad more dangerous than sulphur dioxide?
medievaltimes at 11:02 AM JST - 1st May

The issue here is censorship. (Let me try to explain mods) Police want to delete things from the internet becuase it is "harmful information" that may influence others and give them the same idea.

My point was if they are going to use this logic why then are depictions of rape with school girls in comics not only legal but also so widely available?

The intentions of this idea are good...but they are only trying to relieve the symptom, not cure the disease.
dr_jones at 11:55 AM JST - 1st May

Zaphod: Yes but you will not be able to buy uranium and plutonium in the drug store around the corner.
telecasterplayer at 12:29 PM JST - 1st May

"Hello? Yes, this is the Police. Please put the toothpaste back into the tube. Thanks. What? No, I've never seen 'Seibu Keisatsu'."
Zurg at 12:56 PM JST - 1st May

Listen! oooo aaaaaaaaaaa uuuuuuuuuu Do you want to know a secret? oooo aaaaaaaaaaa uuuuuuuuuu Do you promise not to tell? oooo aaaaaaaaaaa uuuuuuuuuu tell the world what THEY want to hear. Life is full of love!
LFRAgain at 01:00 PM JST - 1st May

Ultradude and medievaltimes,

It wasn't a ban. It was a request. Vastly different things. The censorship argument doesn't apply here.
DXXJP at 04:08 PM JST - 1st May

so did jt remove the vague recipe from here
Ultradude at 04:40 PM JST - 1st May

Fine, not a ban. The intertubes is rather vast - my point is that it is a waste of time. Google searches will find the info that the damaged snowflakes are searching for, if not on ISPs in Japan, then somewhere over the rainbow.
outofmydepth at 05:21 PM JST - 1st May

too late. did not read here but on YAHOO - that 350 people sickened in the latest case on thursday. what the h#%% is going on here??? if you want to "off yourself" - go do it - but to almost take hundreds of people?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!?!?
1keiron at 08:37 PM JST - 1st May

Its a good step but the damage has already been done. I'm pretty certain the whole of the suicide club knows the recipe or the word has been spread.
westurn at 11:49 PM JST - 1st May

My Uncle Albert used to say... "ain't no use shuttin' the barn doors once the horses are out" ! Well... there ya go !
medievaltimes at 11:49 PM JST - 1st May

LFRAgain,

Censorship argument does apply here. Let me explain.

Police are requesting internet service providers to delete posts because they deem they have "harmful information".

My point was, if they considered that harmful information, what are all the weird perverted but numerous examples of depicted manga rape? Is that not "harmful information"? I think it is.

Point being, who is to say what is "harmful information" and what is not. Thus, a censorship issue.
gamecat at 02:27 AM JST - 2nd May

The over-riding issue is votes. If the current government is seen to be steering the police in the right direction, it will maintain it's power-base. It is simple political strategy.

On ground level, it creates inane issues such as this, which are dumb to the core. Japan is particularly susceptible to this bs, due to the passive compliance of its populous.

If I was going to levy criticism at this issue (which seems insane, considering the nature of the internet; it will never happen), I would say... The tools for suicide don't kill people. People use the tools to kill themselves. You can kill yourself with a pen. Easy.

Essentially, they are doing the Japanese thing of shifting blame to a foreign (ho-ho) object, to take away from their blatant social inadequacies which have surfaced very aggressively in the modern world.
gamecat at 02:30 AM JST - 2nd May

(Sorry, the third paragraph reads like madness. I am using a Mac to type this, and we all know they are very silly!... I meant to say...

"If I was going to levy criticism at this issue; an issue which seems insane, considering the nature of the internet; censorship is impossible to implement now), I would say... The tools for suicide don't kill people. People use tools to kill themselves. You can kill yourself with a pen. Easy."