After it came out that Peter Thiel had funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, Anil Dash called for Silicon Valley executives to pressure Facebook to fire Thiel for "funding racists in secret"
https://twitter.com/paxdickinson/status/735848313384108034 https://archive.is/VPgjT
Who is this asshole?
War and Pax
His feud with Pax Dickinson is becoming legendary.
> Fuck you @Anildash. You fucking blacklisted me, you piece of shit. Shut your mouth about Thiel or you're next.
https://np.red*dit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/4l5zuw/pax_dickinson_on_twitter_fuck_you_anildash_you/
> Then, in September 2013, it all came crashing down for Pax: Gawker published a series of his (public) tweets, which they called "homophobic, racist, misogynistic, classist."
http://productio-webloadb-xh7m8u4nserz-641115252.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/culture/media/pax-dickinson-expose-corruption/?PageSpeed=noscript
> Dash: My Meeting with Pax
http://anildash.com/2013/09/my-meeting-with-pax.html https://archive.is/J7Qvh
> Pax Dickinson: I was fired from my job as Business Insider CTO after a Valleywag article (Valleywag is a Gawker property) took 3+ year old joke tweets out of context, the proximate incident actually being my pushback against the perpetually offended tech feminists during the ¿Titstare¿ controversy.
http://archive.is/4meFf
> Cathy Young chronicled the story here.
https://reason.com/archives/2015/07/09/the-social-media-shaming-of-pax-dickinso
> Pax Dickinson turns internet-mob into his own PR channel.
http://adland.tv/adnews/pax-dickinson-turns-internet-mob-his-own-pr-channel/1379173469 https://archive.is/EqDiP
> Loren Feldman: Anil Dash Is A Coward, Liar And Bully. Here's Why
> At this point you would think that Anil has punished Pax enough, but you would be wrong. He now has to lie about him threatening him with physical violence. I asked Anil directly if Pax personally threatened him with violence at any point and when pressed he denied it.
http://www.lorenfeldman.com/anil-dash-is-a-coward-liar-and-bully-heres-why/ https://archive.is/jKl2x
Wow. Who is this asshole?
Ancient History
Wikipedia is not likely to get this wrong: Anil Dash was the first employee of Six Apart which was funded by Joi Ito's VC firm Neoteny, which was funded by PSINet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Dash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Apart
PSINet and several others, including Mitch Kapor, petitioned for opening up the Internet to commercial business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSINet - citing a page that cites Wikipedia, but no reason to doubt it
PSINet was one of the first ISPs, went international, racked up a large debt, and went out of business during the dot com bust. A textbook says the debt was $400 billion with $400 million in annual interest obligations. NYTimes says they spent $500 million per quarter.
http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0072848650/student_view0/chapter6/minicase.html https://archive.is/9NQAp
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/03/business/technology-psinet-suffers-losses-weighs-independence.html https://archive.is/AtP0s
Neoteny's beginnings involved launching SecurityDNA, network security consulting company run by Joi Ito and Mitsuaki Higashi who had been the head of the marketing and network operations departments at Intel Japan.
https://web.archive.org/web/20001121094800/http://www.neoteny.com/english/index.html
Mitsuaki Higashi also known as Mike Higashi. Also, Neoteny was funded by PSINet Capital. https://archive.is/8c7F5
SecurityDNA CTO Abdellah Hamead from Pakistan, formerly senior security officer at Deutsche Bank Tokyo
Neoteny's partners https://web.archive.org/web/20010303005051/http://www.neoteny.com/english/partner/index.html
Not much interesting came from digging this long ago, but we see that Anil Dash and Joi Ito go way back.
Fast forward to 2009
White House project to put data onto "the cloud" (third-party servers)
> Long-time blogger and tech executive Anil Dash announced today at the Web 2.0 Expo New York that he’s leaving publishing software company SixApart and will head a new technology incubator called Expert Labs … Expert Labs will be a part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and funded by the MacArthur Foundation … The organization will aim to facilitate production of applications to serve government. Those apps will be cloud-based.
http://readwrite.com/2009/11/18/expert_labs_government_incubator/ https://archive.is/NEbLf
He also ran a project called the Policy Innovation Network. Wikipedia cites the same source to say he ran activate.com but it's not in the article.
http://www.observer.com/2009/media/dash-dc-tech-guru-will-head-govt-incubator-digitize-democracy https://archive.is/wJz4
Policy Innovation Network is a project of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) funded by the MacArthur Foundation
http://promo.aaas.org/kn_marketing/advances/2009_06_Jun_Advances.html https://archive.is/JTgvA
One project of Expert Labs is Thinkup which produced Makerbase, a database of "Makers." Anil Dash promoted this as an assault on Silicon Valley's culture. https://archive.is/KlGr4
> In and around San Francisco, histories of entire companies are routinely reduced and refined into an memorable, easy narrative of the lone genius in his (usually his) garage or dorm room. This is the founders’ myth, something beloved by reputation managers because “the impossible genius” sounds intriguing and unreproducible. It adds to the mystique, and no doubt the value, of these organisations. And unquestioning journalists use the founders’ myths as shorthand for a lifestyle, an easy cliche that is neat to write and reassuringly familiar to read.
Of course this "myth" exists because so many companies like Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, and Facebook were literally founded in someone's garage or dorm room.
Anil Dash and Andy Baio denounced David Auerbach as a "pro-Gamergate asshole" and "pro-GG troll"
https://archive.is/2So4I
Both are leaders of Expert Labs.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150524141140/http://www.expertlabs.org/team.html
Another member of Expert Labs is Clay Johnson of Blue State Digital who was present at the first fundraiser for the New Organizing Institute. Another attendee was Amanda Michel of the Berkman Center, that name that keeps coming up.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hundreds-of-dcs-young-progressives-set-to-make-some-noise-june-12-happy--hour-event-to-benefit-new-organizing-institute-noi-58008652.html https://archive.is/v9vtp
Wonder Twin Powers Activate
Anil Dash is part of activate.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20120218000634/http://activate.com/online/
Michael Wolf - Twitter @mjw https://archive.is/WGqer Board member at Yahoo! Inc., Fmr President & COO, MTV Networks; Fmr Senior Director at McKinsey, worked at Booz Allen Hamilton 1989-2001
Anil Dash
Michele Anderson - Twitter @micheleactivate https://archive.is/mmF2R LinkedIn https://archive.is/bkBNd worked for Booz Allen Hamilton 1989-2000
Himesh Bhise - @himeshbhise Linkedin: https://archive.is/ZDysF left Activate in 2012; now head of "personalized media" company Synacor; former big shot at Comcast, Charter, AOL, McKinsey
Chris Morf
Activate is a marketing company.
> * Building a new consumer division for a Fortune 500 business information and media company
> * Developing the strategy for a new education division for one of the world’s largest entertainment companies
> * Exploiting technology to create a new paradigm for storytelling and narrative for a major entertainment company
> * Optimizing pricing and sponsorship revenues across a multi-business entertainment company
Part of their work is to define "modern editorial models"
https://web.archive.org/web/20120211143538/http://activate.com/capabilities
> Make Content A Vibrant Asset
> Define modern programming, editorial, and production models. Build compelling experiences native to new devices. Incorporate rich functionality, social media, game dynamics, and content syndication.
Threat: Anil Dash might have been "advising" businesses to hire SJWs / require SJW bullshit under the noses of these other guys who don't seem to be involved in any of it.
Wired's Internet censorship panel
WIRED gathers professional victims, online harassers and Twitter exec to discuss how to censor the internet.
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/how-silicon-valley-can-solve-online-diversity-and-harassment/ https://archive.is/wHti4
Anil Dash
Del Harvey - Twitter censor
Laura Hudson - friend of Leigh Alexander https://archive.is/1RxDR
Nadia Kayyali - head of EFF, highup in National Lawyers Guild https://archive.is/1hYXs friend to jihad https://archive.is/09u9P https://archive.is/11UTN https://archive.is/hMyoJ
Adria Richards - Donglegate nutter
Chinyere Tutashinda - Black Lives Matter https://archive.is/H18ZN
Clock Boy
As reported by Frank Gaffney, Ahmed Mohamed hired the Hamas front Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for PR. Shortly afterward, Anil Dash got the word out about this poor oppressed Muslim boy.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/18/if-it-walks-like-an-influence-operation/ https://archive.is/o0hqL
http://fusion.net/story/198023/istandwithahmed-twitter-ahmed-mohamed/ https://archive.is/SvHUv
Wikipedia covered this by trying to ban DHeyward and making Frank Gaffney's page a hit piece.
https://www.red*dit.com/r/WikiInAction/comments/3ms3e4/koolaid_drinkers_converge_on_the_ahmed_mohamed/
https://www.red*dit.com/r/WikiInAction/comments/3q758l/the_frank_gaffney_edit_war/
#BanMen
"The White House Triumph of the Ban Men Movement"
> The blogger and tech entrepreneur Anil Dash spent 2013 retweeting only women
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-01-01/the-white-house-triumph-of-the-banmen-movement https://archive.is/yw7n0
Other stupid shit
In 2009 Anil Dash called the mortgage crisis "a failure of white culture." This racist hipter was doing today's trendy racism years before it was cool!
http://dashes.com/anil/2009/01/monoculture-is-bad-for-business.html https://archive.is/NhXHO
> His Gamergate attachment is low and just looks like a general liberal crybaby adult at first glance.
Here's what my first glance sees:
> Pax Dickinson: I was fired from my job as Business Insider CTO
He is powerful enough to fire a C-level executive of a major news site
> Joi Ito
> White House
> MacArthur Foundation
> Berkman Center
> McKinsey
> Booz Allen Hamilton
> Hamas
dude is really fucking connected
Has this guy ever actually programmed anything? Who is he that he gets a say in who loses their job because he disagrees with them?
>revoltard in email field
It appears that he deleted the twit.
> His Gamergate attachment is low and just looks like a general liberal crybaby adult at first glance.
That's he wants you to think. If you actually did your homework and not wait to be spoonfed, you'd have seen his name pop up frequently when #Gamergate is invoked, yet somehow always managed to avoid the spotlight as attention is drawn elsewhere.
He is an example of a successful social engineer, a kingmaker lurking in the shadows behind the throne that is the Social Media Empire. And apparently pro-#GG is the enemy for refusing to kowtow to their whims.
The information in this thread may be useful in the future, so I already put it on archive just in case.
https://archive.is/ZRWvV
I'm actually surprised wesearchr does not have a bounty on Daesh, knowing his history with Dickinson.
>A textbook says the debt was $400 billion
Wait what? HOW?
That's more than the debt of many countries combined
Some new material for an old thread: The ADL's Brittan Heller promoted an article that highlighted Joel Spolsky and Anil Dash of Stack Overflow and their work in keeping hate speech out of online comments.
https://twitter.com/brittanheller/status/814525654242828288 https://archive.is/vVMOV
https://www.businessinsider.nl/joel-spolsky-stack-exchange-interview-2016-12/ https://archive.is/PKl16
The author Matt Rosoff strays into advocacy and damns Facebook for allowing "fake news" and Google for refusing to "suppress" a racist site that was popular enough to be in its search results.
He could quite easily be considered a 'shadow co-founder' of gawker. He and Denton used to be like ||
He wasn't too well known even during the rise of fawker but was essentially "That One Blogging Software Guy"
^this
It's not just flooded out either he actively expunged his involvement in early blogging development. You can "see" mention of him on arc.org but all the articles do that "It's still live! Go here instead!" redirect that just goes to an empty page. These were all done way before GG because I remember running into that the first time it came up. Likely pulled strings to sever his ties to gawker during an early tech bubble hissyfight.
like here, probably working on some kinda word censor algorithm or other for anyone he's criticising.
also, like many others we've come to know and loathe, yeah he can barely 'code' once you leave "blogging" it's mostly just giant .csv wordfilters and shit.