Gazou channel administrators arrested
The team of 7 administrators for the large image board Gazou channel have been arrested today on the 23rd on suspicion of public display of indecent pictures. Gazo channel is one of the largest image boards in Japan and had a total of 73.6 million hits and 360,000 pictures uploaded in 2006.
Where they refer to indecent pictures, they are mainly referring to images that have not been censored. The administrators maintain that the people who are breaking the law are the people that posted the pictures, and not the actual administrators.
If Gazo channel goes down… it would possibly mean the end of Japanese image boards since nobody will want to take the risk of being arrested when a malicious poster posts an uncensored picture.
