Japan wants to rein in internet trolls following Hana Kimura's death as free speech advocates cry foul

The New York Times

The Terrace House star's apparent suicide last month has prompted Japanese authorities to see if they could tackle the problem of internet trolls, "who hide behind a cloak of anonymity to share malicious posts that are sometimes misogynistic or racist," reports The New York Times'  Ben Dooley and Hikari Hida. "But free-speech advocates fear that measures making it harder for people to hide their identities could chill the country’s rising online activism, which has become an increasingly powerful check on government power." As the reporters note, "the discussion in Japan echoes a fierce debate in the United States over how far social media companies should go to intervene in users’ posts. Last week, Twitter added labels to two of President Trump’s tweets, directing users to fact-checking materials, and it hid another of his tweets behind a warning, saying it glorified violence."