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Apparently Japanese prison is super strict too. They're not gonna have a fun time.
QAnon must really resonate with fucking idiots, and let's be real, the world is full of them. >

There used to be a bunch of Q apps in the app store; at one point Google listed one in the top-10 recent downloads (I have no idea how it managed that; I can only guess that a bunch of puppet accounts were downloading it). But it looks like they are mostly or all removed now. 
It's ridiculous that people fall so deep into crazy communities; and that the leaders of those communities aren't stopped. It's proof that freedom of speech/press isn't as perfect and wonderful as we like to think it is. There is a lot of bad speech/press, and dumb/committed people are incapable of realizing they have been misled. >

Free speech isn’t perfect and wonderful, but the alternative is far worse. >

Like most things, the ideal is somewhere in the blurry middle. We need to feel free enough to hold the government accountable for their actions, but not free enough that those who knowingly seek to spread objectively false information are empowered to cause real harm to others >

The problem is we would have to put someone in charge of what is and isn’t ok to talk about. And those people, or the method of selecting them would almost 100% be manipulated. >

Or you know, we could bring back the community quorum requirement of broadcasting and news into the modern age. In the US the FCC used to allow groups to sue if they weren't being represented in the media (this worked both for and against liberal views). This meant that every channel on the radio or terrestrial broadcast TV had a mix of all views. It wasn't perfect, nor did it prevent lying, but today's ecosystem on AM for example, is completely dominated by one perspective. Meanwhile, there are other avenues dominated by the other perspective. This balkanization of our media has created the perfect echo chambers we see today. By simply making it difficult to only present one side (even two sides!), we can eliminate this kind of extremist speech without fighting it directly. It will just return to the noise it came from. >

Holy shit those nut jobs are over there too >

Of course. Japan is famous for having stupid fringe ideologies run amok (conspiracy nutjobs, fucked up sects and cults, and various related extremists etc).
Aum Shinrikyo, Pana-Wave Laboratory, Happy Science, ESP Kagaku Kenkyuujo, World Mate, Räelism, Scientology, Jehova's Witnesses, Ho No Hana Sanpogyo, Sukyo Mahikari, Shinji Shumeikai, Mahikari, Unification Church, Zenrinkyo, Makuya, Kurozumikyou, etc to just mention a very small fraction of them. >

Lets not forge 4Chan is owned by a Japanese millionaire whose vision is "Fuck society" >

He didn't really create 4chan though, he only acquired it much later from Moot after most of the glory years. >

From what I understand, he own/created 2channel, which is Japan's "Absolute free speech zone" >

More or less. However, the original owner sold the site at the peak of Gamergate, after his then-girlfriend was doxed.
Everyone loves free speech until they suffer the consequences on a personal level. >

First the Moonies and now this? Japan really needs to start doing something about cancerous cults coming from abroad. They have enough crazies as it is. >

Moonies is no where near the worst. They are just money suckers. The like of Aum Shinrikyo were willing to cook up nerve gas and WMDs just because... >

I read the headline and thought “what do you mean members? Following Qanon online doesn’t make it a club or a team or something” but then I read this 
“YamatoQ, a general incorporated association, has organized monthly protests against vaccines and face masks across Japan this year.” 
These motherfuckers are incorporated!?!? >

In Japan they have like religious corporations, kinda like Scientology I guess, where they suck the money out of their members. Because freedom of religion >


The group’s manifesto and website reflect the baseless conspiracy theory it stemmed from, saying it aimed to protect people from Satanists and the Illuminati – and that it respected former US President Donald Trump.

Insane how effective right wing American propaganda can be. Their country gets literally nuked and half a century later they willingly expose themselves to a disease, because the same country that nuked them told them it’s better than getting vaccinated. >

The reality is, because of large underlying social problems like unaffordable housing and a massive mental health crisis, the entire west is extremely vulnerable to conspiracy theories like qanon. Depressed, unmotivated, and disillusioned are the ones most vulnerable to conspiracy, and the above mentioned social problems breed all of those problems. >

There are qanon conspiracy people in Japan? Bruh what the hell >

well yeah, where theres internet theres a global reach for all kind of "organisations" and tinfoil brained idiots, vast majority of such cults have followers pretty much in every part of the world >

Suppose I shoulda said that my surprise was that there’s enough to form a community there. Internet outreach is amazing and terrifying