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Christopher Poole (born c. 1988)〔(Chris Poole part 1/3- ROFLCON 2012 – Solo Panel ), Christopher Poole - "I'm 24 years old" YouTube site, May 10, 2012〕 is an American entrepreneur. He is best known for founding two web sites, 4chan and Canvas. He originally started 4chan pseudonymously, under the screen name moot (written entirely in lower case). ==Impact and activity== In 2008, Leopoldo Godoy of Brazilian TV Globo called Poole's 4chan "the ground zero of Western web culture." In April 2009, Poole was voted the world's most influential person of 2008 by an open Internet poll conducted by ''Time'' magazine. The results were questioned even before the poll completed, however, as automated voting programs and manual ballot stuffing were used to influence the vote. 4chan's interference with the vote seemed increasingly likely, when it was found that reading the first letter of the first 21 candidates in the poll spelled out a phrase containing two 4chan memes: "mARBLECAKE. ALSO, THE GAME." On September 12, 2009, Poole gave a talk on why 4chan has a reputation as a "Meme Factory" at the Paraflows Symposium in Vienna, Austria, which was part of the Paraflows 09 festival, themed Urban Hacking. In this talk, Poole mainly attributed this to the anonymous system, and to the lack of data retention on the site ("The site has no memory").〔Herwig, Jana. (Partial transcript: Moot on 4chan and why it works as a meme factory ), ''Digiom'' blog, April 6, 2010. accessed 2010-04-07〕 On February 10, 2010, Poole spoke at the TED2010 conference in Long Beach, California.〔Fisher, Ken. (4chan's moot takes pro-anonymity to TED 2010 ), ''Ars Technica'', February 11, 2010. accessed 2010-02-12〕 He spoke about the increasing prevalence of persistent user identities and the sharing of personal information on sites such as Facebook and Twitter and he also spoke about the value of anonymous posting on sites such as 4chan. Fred Leal of the Brazilian newspaper ''O Estado de S. Paulo'' said his inclusion in the conference "indicates that something extraordinary is happening... () challenges every Internet convention: it is, alone, the antithesis of Google, social networking sites, and blogs." In 2010, Poole was reported to have raised $625,000 to create a new online enterprise, Canvas.〔 The web site opened on January 31, 2011, and features digitally modified images uploaded by users who are required to self-identify using Facebook Connect. In April 2010, Poole gave evidence in the trial, ''United States of America v. David Kernell'', as a government witness. As a witness, Poole explained the terminology used on 4chan to the prosecutor, ranging from "OP" to "lurker." He also explained to the court the nature of the data given to the FBI as part of the search warrant, including how users may be identified uniquely from site audit logs.〔(Transcript of testimony )〕 In a 2010 interview, Poole discussed his belief in the value of multiple identities, including anonymity, in contrast to the merger of online and real-world identities occurring on Facebook and many other social networking sites. In November 2012, Poole sent a cease and desist letter to Moot.It, an internet startup. In January 2014, Poole announced that Canvas, and its DrawQuest feature, would be going out of business. In January 2015, Poole announced that he would be stepping down as the 4chan administrator. On January 23, moot hosted a final Q&A with site users using the /qa/ board and YouTube to livestream. This marked the beginning of his "retirement" from being an administrator and owner of the web site after eleven-and-a-half years. He began a process of turning control of the site over to three anonymous 4chan moderators while searching for a buyer for the website. On September 21, 2015, it was announced that Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of the Japanese BBS 2channel, would take over as the site's owner. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Poole」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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