Japanese chief cabinet secretary criticizes “nuisance Youtubers”

TV Asahi News source on front page of Yahoo News today (9/23, Sat. local time):

[https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/1898c36e16f077bc31ce04b27ae10523625ae8ae](https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/1898c36e16f077bc31ce04b27ae10523625ae8ae)

\[DeepL translation below\]

**Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno criticizes nuisance YouTubers: “They should refrain from invading privacy and causing trouble.**

Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno criticized the so-called “nuisance YouTubers” who film and distribute their nuisance activities on the Internet, saying that they should refrain from “invading privacy and causing trouble”.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno: “Of course, we must ensure the freedom of YouTube users, but we must also refrain from infringing on the privacy of others and causing trouble.”

Director Matsuno emphasized that the police would also follow the same policy.

On September 21st, the Osaka Prefectural Police arrested two suspects, including an American national, Ismael Ramsey Khalid, on suspicion of trespassing in a building.

The suspect, Khalid, had been repeatedly distributing videos of nuisance acts under the name “Johnny Somali.

https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/16pvofq/japanese_chief_cabinet_secretary_criticizes/

16 comments
  1. it’s great that the discussion is finally reaching the general public and even politicians. I just hope it doesn’t turn into just hating on foreigners doing it. I’m seeing these streamers blatantly stream into crowds (or hold the camera towards them and not care who behind them is captured as well) almost daily now. and it’s definitely not only foreigners doing it. or how about all those “walking in Japan” youtube channels that literally monetize filming strangers? hopefully all those will be shut down eventually!

  2. Please, to all Japanese people, not all foreigner Youtubers are like Johnny “Daijoubo Somalia going to prison”. Please keep us treating us kindly and respectfully.

  3. ive seen clips of this johnny somali cunt. he’s literally just going around being racist to japanese people, trying to be provocative and tough to some of the most polite and hospitable people on earth, only cause he knows if he tried this shit pretty much anywhere else on earth he’d get the shit slapped out of him.

    honestly surprised he’s made it this long without getting kicked out of the country.

  4. Earlier in the day…

    *Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno asks his granddaughter:*

    *”Wtf is this YouTube and streaming content everyone is talking about?*

    *Is it a new kind of fax machine?”*

  5. Here’s an example of the ‘youtubers’ he’s refering to, and it’s not just somali and his friend: [you’ll have to scroll down past the recent stuff to see the japanese streamers](https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E8%BF%B7%E6%83%91%E7%B3%BB%E9%85%8D%E4%BF%A1%E8%80%85?src=hashtag_click)

    but as always, they will probably do nothing. If they didn’t do anything about the “pero-rists” (my favorite pun in recent years) which cost a sushi chain a lot of money in lost sales then they’ll probably just suck air through their teeth here.

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  7. You know they’re going to come down on Johnny Somali like a ton of bricks when the Cabinet Secretary comments on it.

  8. Unless they pass a new anti nuisance law or actually punish the guy with lengthy prison nothing will change and he’ll just come out with a larger following

  9. Only time I felt uncomfortable in Japan was when I came across some African nightclub workers in Shinjuku. Not saying this to be racist but Africans should get their act together.

  10. Look im a massive advocate for gun control in the US; but please depot this cunt so he tries this shit In the US and he catches either a massive haymaker or a bullet to teach him not to fuck with the public

  11. This clown has been harassing people for ages so it has been a long time coming.

    What is particularly satisfying to see is that it’s getting attention on a national and government level which hopefully means jail time, deportation and travel ban for life.

    In the meantime if he wants to mock Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Fukushima I’m sure there’s plenty of hardened, criminal grown ass men in the jail he can try harassing.

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