Well-known Japanese blogger and cybercrime expert Kenichiro Okamoto, aka Hagex, died Sunday evening after being attacked by a man who had harassed him online Each time the man's account was deleted, he had opened a new one…https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/japanese-blogger-kenichiro-okamoto-stabbed-to-death-after-internet-abuse-seminar …
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"The Mainichi quoted a source as saying that Okamoto 'had got into trouble before with internet users over the content of the blog'." This makes it sound like Okamoto was somehow responsible for whatever ill feelings the attacker had. Was that really the case?
I think that is a misrepresentation of the situation. In this case, the attacker appears to have been the harasser. But we will soon hear more, I am sure.
