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  1. http://pastebin.com/3fkbxWkk
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  3. FOLLOWING IS A COPY OF THE EMAIL I SENT TO KINGOFPOL LIVESTREAM (WITH ADAM BALDWIN, MILO YIANNOPOLOUS, DANIEL VAVRA, MUNDANEMATT AND OTHERS):
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  5. Hello,
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  7. 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.
  8.  
  9. Moot at XOXO 2014: http://instagram.com/p/s54iEwy8lN
  10. EDIT: MOOT DELETED THE INSTAGRAM PHOTO, HERE IT IS: http://imgur.com/ACz7rEw
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  12. Here's a flickr page documenting it: http://duncan.co/xoxo-2014-photos/
  13. Here's an article about it: http://www.wordyard.com/2014/09/17/xoxo-and-the-fierce-urgency-of-nice/
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  17. Anita was one of the speakers: http://imgur.com/7hjJDPp
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  19. Anita's talk topic: Listen and Believe. Moot was in attendance
  20. http://imgur.com/bGVuefa
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  22. Buzzfeed Article:
  23. https://archive.today/oG0P9
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  25. The Verge (Vox Media Company):
  26. https://archive.today/5UQjh
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  30. 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.
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  32. http://2014.xoxofest.com/attendees/
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  34. 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.
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  36. An example of some of Leigh's articles:
  37. August, 2014: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/224400/Gamers_dont_have_to_be_your_audience_Gamers_are_over.php
  38. October 2013: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/11/leigh-alexander-video-games_n_4032080.html
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  40. From 2013: "I don’t personally like FPSes [first person shooters, like HALO] because I think they’re lazy. Because all you can do is point and pull a trigger and cause death and injury. There’s just not much you can do with that mechanic.... It’s possible to enjoy problematic things, and it’s possible for problematic things to exist and be enjoyed by people that aren’t me. So I don’t know if I would want to legislate the way that games are made so much as I want more kinds of games to be made by more people."
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  42. From 2014: "You don’t want to ‘be divisive?’ Who’s being divided, except for people who are okay with an infantilized cultural desert of shitty behavior and people who aren’t? What is there to ‘debate’? ... When you decline to create or to curate a culture in your spaces, you’re responsible for what spawns in the vacuum. That’s what’s been happening to games... “Gamer” isn’t just a dated demographic label that most people increasingly prefer not to use. Gamers are over. That’s why they’re so mad."
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  44. https://twitter.com/deanna/status/510925931217559552/photo/1
  45.  
  46. Is from Sept. 13, 2014. Deanna Zandt is a writer on Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/
  47. But mainly, Zandt is a public speaker: http://www.deannazandt.com/about/
  48. Who has spoke at a lot of different places including Netroots Nation, National Conference on Media Reform, Facing Race and Women Action & The Media.
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  52. Lifehacker was there: http://imgur.com/UFSGyWT
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  54. Lifehacker is owned by Gawker Media. Pictured is Lifehacker founder, Gina Marie Trapani: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Trapani
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  56. XOXO Fest was started by Andy Baio who has written for Wired; he also founded Kickstarter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Baio
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  58. The conference is attended by other writers from Wired, Gawker, The New York Times (which Baio has written for as well).
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  62.  
  63. At XOXO Fest 2012 Moot speech revolved around Canvas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_Networks
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  65. 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
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  67. 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
  68.  
  69. Some of Moot's "friends" (Scott Kidder, of Gawker) offered their sympathy: http://imgur.com/Oz4NPSJ
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  71. "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]"
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  73. Moot also attended the 2013 XOXO Fest: http://2013.xoxofest.com/attendees/
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  77. Moot is an adviser at Lehrer Ventures: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/christopher-poole
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  79. Kenneth Lehrer, the Managing Director of Lehrer Ventures, is also the chairman of BuzzFeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Lerer
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  81. Moots backers for Canvas, Andreessen Horowitz, invested $50 million in BuzzFeed: http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/10/media/buzzfeed-funding/
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  83. BuzzFeed that publishes these: http://www.buzzfeed.com/refinery29/gamergate-target-exposes-her-attackers-1aeh
  84. http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/why-the-gamer-rebellion-wont-last-very-long#47shlvm
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  88.  
  89. Moot's ?best-friend/girlfriend? is Mallory Blair: https://twitter.com/yourpalmal/status/512608043146969088
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  91. Mallory Blair is a cofounder of Small Girls PR. Small Girls PR is, "a PR firm that ... has become the agency of record for technology companies such as GE and Meetup as well as the promotional arm for media companies like Flavorpill and Gawker."
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  93. http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eihl45hmgi/mallory-blair-25/
  94.  
  95. Small Girls PR: http://www.smallgirlspr.com/#!our-clients/c1jo8
  96.  
  97. Their service has been utilized by many companies. One of which is "hackNY".
  98.  
  99. http://hackny.org/a/
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  101. Christopher "Moot" Poole is an advisor for hackNY:
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  103. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/christopher-poole
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  107. 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.
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