FOLLOWING IS A COPY OF THE EMAIL I SENT TO KINGOFPOL LIVESTREAM (WITH ADAM BALDWIN, MILO YIANNOPOLOUS, DANIEL VAVRA, MUNDANEMATT AND OTHERS):

Hello,

All this shit on 4chan with the mod started over the weekend while Moot was in attendance of the XOXO Fest. Anita Sarkeesian was speaking there.

Moot at XOXO 2014: http://instagram.com/p/s54iEwy8lN

He was a speaker at XOXO 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxRNRi7bOSI

Here's a flickr page documenting it: http://duncan.co/xoxo-2014-photos/
Here's an article about it: http://www.wordyard.com/2014/09/17/xoxo-and-the-fierce-urgency-of-nice/

Leigh Alexander and other people from Gawker media were there. Anita was there. I cannot share this with /pol/ as I have been banned. I would appreciate it if you took this into consideration and talked about it. This topic is not allowed to be talked about on 4chan.

http://2014.xoxofest.com/attendees/

This is an antendees list of XOXO 2014. Moot, Anita, Leigh are all on it. A lot of the other people on it are from different start-ups, blogs and media sites.

https://twitter.com/deanna/status/510925931217559552/photo/1

Is from Sept. 13, 2014. Deanna Zandt is a writer on Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/
But mainly, Zandt is a public speaker: http://www.deannazandt.com/about/
Who has spoke at a lot of different places including Netroots Nation, National Conference on Media Reform, Facing Race and Women Action & The Media.

Lifehacker was there: http://imgur.com/fqlm00s

Lifehacker is owned by Gawker Media. Pictured is Lifehacker founder, Gina Marie Trapani: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Trapani

XOXO Fest was started by Andy Baio who has written for Wired; he also founded Kickstarter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Baio

The conference is attended by other writers from Wired, Gawker, The New York Times (which Baio has written for as well).



At XOXO Fest 2012 Moot speech revolved around Canvas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_Networks

It was to be, basically, the social media version of 4chan. It was backed and funded by Andreessen Horowitz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreessen_Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz is a $4 billion venture capital firm that has funded many things, including Buzzfeed and other media companies / projects. Canvas didn't last: http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed

It is known, by a lot of 4channers, that Moot is basically dead broke. Could it be that, to recoup losses, Andreessen Horowitz may want 4chan to draw a profit and to do that they have to make it more marketable.

"Andreessen Horowitz invests both in early-stage start-ups, which may raise just $50,000, and established growth companies, which often raise tens of millions of dollars.[12] The firm is currently invested in 156 companies, which includes its own portfolio of 90 companies[13] and 66 start-ups[14] through its funding of Y Combinator's Start Fund.[15] Andreessen Horowitz's investments span the mobile, gaming, social, ecommerce, education and enterprise IT (including cloud computing, security, and software as a service) industries.[4]"

Moot also attended the 2013 XOXO Fest: http://2013.xoxofest.com/attendees/

Moot is also an adviser at Lehrer Ventures: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/christopher-poole

Kenneth Lehrer, the Managing Director of Lehrer Ventures, is also the chairman of BuzzFeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Lerer

Moots backers for Canvas, Andreessen Horowitz, invested $50 million in BuzzFeed: http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/10/media/buzzfeed-funding/

BuzzFeed that publishes these: http://www.buzzfeed.com/refinery29/gamergate-target-exposes-her-attackers-1aeh
                               http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/why-the-gamer-rebellion-wont-last-very-long#47shlvm

Like I said, we're not allowed to discuss this on 4chan, /pol/ especially. I don't know how important it is but with all these players in the same place, over the years, I feel like its worth looking into.