Sunday May 27, 2012

It's a positive trial for a future cyber-forum where anyone can pose real opinions freely. It has both a light and a dark side.

Tsutomu Kanayama, professor of journalism and communications at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, saying that 2channel has laid bare the pluses and minuses of the social media revolution. 2channel is Japan’s biggest Internet forum, where anonymous netizens trade anything from cooking tips to death threats. (AFP)

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    neverknow2

    It has both a light and a dark side

    By this he means it's full of racism and has a couple of jokes in there too. Anyone who has used it would know this already.

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    kyoken

    It's a positive trial for a future cyber-forum

    It is not a positive trail as the (successful) suicide planings and hatred posts reveal that absolute anonymity breeds absolute rottenness.

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