Internet stud Christopher Poole, aka moot, is calling out Mark Zuckerberg for what he believes to be a constrictive view on online identity. Poole founded the controversial image board 4chan, an online community that birthed hacker group Anonymous, swarms of the cutest cat pics, and many a meme.For Poole, Mark Zuckerberg’s idea of Internet identity is “totally wrong” and the happy Disneyland Facebook tries to represent is a superficial farce. There’s no room for personal risk because we’re chained to our identities. It’s no surprise that people are fake and tame when their reputation is at stake."The cost of failure is really high when you're contributing as yourself," Poole contends in a keynote ate South by Soutwest. See, 4chan harks back to a day of the Internet wild west. Since 4chan users are inherently faceless, there’s less restraint, revealing themselves in a “"completely unvarnished, unfiltered, raw way,” Poole remarked.But for all of Moot’s reasonable rationale, the never-reaches of 4chan and it’s “anything goes” primordial soup has an inner dark side. Turns out, 4chan’s more subversive reaches notoriously have issues with kiddie porn (like /b/, the “random” board) and other unseemly surprises amid the usual trolling chaos. For these and other reasons, Poole hasn’t been able to drum up much corporate support.It seems though that 4chan’s leader is coming to terms the chaos of such an unwieldy hivemind yet hints of this next evolution are veiled in secrecy. Business Insider has the scoop on his next venture, a startup called Canv.as.viaVentureBeatPHOTO:VanityFair
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