moot takes pro-anonymity to TED 2010

LONG BEACH, CA—TED 2010. Christopher Poole is not a name known by many, but Poole's handle is certainly (in)famous: moot is the founder of 4chan, the largest, most raucous, alternately hilarious and serious online community in the English-speaking world. Whether it's battling Scientology or, more recently, Australian censorship practices, 4chan often leaps from its quotidian base of humor and porn to causes that reach far beyond the community. It's not difficult to understand why moot is speaking at TED, despite the fact that most TEDsters would be freaked out by most of the content on 4chan's boards. Indeed, TED curator Chris Anderson said he wasn't sure he could recommend everyone at TED visit the site. But it wasn't content that moot was here to address, it was a principle: that anonymity is a good thing, and that everyone shouldn't be in such a hurry to lose it.

http://arstechnica.com/staff/palatine/2010/02/4chans-moot-takes-pro-anonymity-to-ted-2010.ars

4chan is a hip up-and-comer in the Web 2.0 scene.  It is best known for it's outrageous sense of humor and memes (LOLcats, Rickrolling).  The site has also become a launching point for various social crusades through its activist wing, Anonymous, lighting the way for justice and standing up to conventional authority.


Anyone else want to hump 4chan's leg?  C'mon, it's fun!

Jeepers, lets solve the Israel/Palestine thing next

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If Israelites and Palestinians were all anonymous, nobody could tell who to shoot or throw a pebble at, respectively.

Moving on to god physics...