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No. 43336

Yesterday some guy on 4shit's /b/ made a fake bomb threat to a university in Ontario. Pretty standard stuff.

Today, the guy (who lives in the UK) got arrested: http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2015/10/17/man-22-arrested-in-uk-after-wilfrid-laurier-lockdown.html

How do you feel about this? Is Hiroyuki ratting everyone out to the FBI? I would be so pissed if I got arrested for shitposting.

No. 43340

could be, maybe trying to make his situation better? never liked the guy, too smug

No. 43342

but a bomb threat isn't exactly innocent shitposting

No. 43357

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Of course Hiroyuki is, but then this is nothing new.
Moot also had a contract with the government. The entire FBI monitors /b/ for this shit and this has been known for a very long time. They don't monitor any other boards as far as I'm aware as it's typically only /b/ that this shit gets posted to, though I guess /r9k/ will be on their list now.

If you're still posting to Cuckchan after this then you deserve whatever happens to you tbh. That entire site is a gubment honeypot now.

No. 43358

>>43357
What's your opinion on more hobby related boards? I've never been one to shitpost and I seldom venture outside of /cgl/. I always wondered if the FBI is just intensely monitoring the hell out of a lolita and cosplay board or something like the anime boards. Reminds me of the whole NSA thing where they "planted agents" in WoW and Second Life to "monitor terrorists".

No. 43361

>>43358

You're dumb if you post to Cuckchan period.

No. 43363

What do you expect Hiroyuki to do? If you operate a website and police request information, especially related to a threat or possible violent crime, you have to comply. Moot has done the same thing in the past, every time. Hotwheels will as well.

If you post a serious-looking violent threat here, I'm also going to give your information to law enforcement. Of course, it's a different story if it's an obvious joke, like >>42157.

No. 43364

>>43361
Kek. Go back to 8chan.

No. 43370

>>43364

I don't post to either.
Chans of that scale are always bad news. If lolcow were to ever get that big, good forbid, I'd dump this place too.

No. 43382

I don't see how it's anyone's business talking shit and making stupid jokes among your group of friends and I think that no one should be fucking jailed for saying the wrong words in private. This is fucking madness. I can't feel safe anywhere anymore. Can't do anything without governments watching your every single step
cancer.

No. 43384

>>43382
First, how is 4chan private?

Second, unless you leave some clue that it's a joke, how is anyone supposed to know you don't actually intend to kill people? A few people who posted threats on 4chan actually carried them out, even if the majority didn't.

Third, "I'm going to shoot up X school in New York" isn't even edgy humor, it's just retarded.

No. 43386

>>43370
True, really. Did you hear how 8chan is more or less as bad as 4chan in terms of privacy?

No. 43387

>>43384
Also, I have no idea how a joke like that got the governments attention, even after a big shooting unless Hiroyuki is telling them. There's millions of death threats on the internet every day.

No. 43389

>>43384
> unless you leave some clue that it's a joke
Because, usually, everything on 4chan is a joke.

No. 43391

>>43387
Hiroyuki is obviously telling them. He denied it in the Q&A threads for obvious reasons, but note only is he completely out of touch with halfchan's sense of humor, he's a snake in the grass.

No. 43395

>>43382
what a retard

No. 43396

i doubt hiroyuki sits on /b/ all day with fbi on the phone

No. 43402

>>43395
are you implying it's okay that people who shitpost for shits and giggles, including you, should be arrested because some people took their "humor" the wrong way?
Please, if you are, for the love of God just kill yourself you fucking cancerous faggot

No. 43413

>>43389

Except some tard on r9k just shot up a school not even a month ago. "I'm going to bomb/shoot up/ stab everyone in x place" has to now be taken seriously, because of all the actual criminals posting on 4chan.

No. 43415

>>43363
based admin sama

No. 43422

Remember: a part of criminal intent/conspiracy is criminal, meaning that in all practicality, unless this (wo)man owns an armory or has detailed plans, nothing will come of this. Also, keep in mind every government is automatically scanning sites for evidence of terrorism and other crimes. That said, whoever posted that is a retard.

No. 43426

>>43363
this tbh


No. 43427

>>43391
you retards do know that the fbi will sub poena information if they deem it to be threat-worthy, right? and that hiroyuki has to comply with government sub poenas because its far easier to just comply? stop being such whiny babies jfc


No. 43574

>>43389
Even if 99% of the time it's a joke, if someone leaves absolutely no hint that it's a joke/troll/whatever, you have no choice but to take it seriously. Because that 1% is starting to grow over time.

No. 43586

>>43413
Normies had it coming tbh.

No. 43590

>>43427
4chan has been watched by the FBI since like 2008 (see >>43357), why is it only now that we're getting people arrested for parroting what's commonly known as a meme, even when they don't even live where they're claiming they're going to shoot up?
At this rate, half the people on /r9k/ typing "Reeee kill all normies" will be thrown in the slammer instead of actual criminals.

No. 43591

>>43413
I strongly doubt it was him, threads like that are basically an everyday thing for that board. It was a mere coincidence that normies jumped on because they were secretly all looking for more frog pictures in their free time.
Let me remind you that these same media outlets saying "the frogposter did it" were totally convinced it was Eggman for a while, and publicly tarnished an innocent man's reputation without any real evidence. They are not reliable.

No. 43608

>>43357
I dont see the big deal they wanna cut down on cp. the only people who have a problem with it are the fucks who like cp.

No. 43639

http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/video?clipId=729982&binId=1.1147261&playlistPageNum=1

Kiddo getting interviewed
>Not posting to /b/ behind 7 proxies

No. 43641

>>43639
Lmao he's such a mincing fag. Why would you go on the news after something this embarrassing happens to you?



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