Earlier this year, Tripfags.com posted an article exposing the sexually abusive ways of Christopher “moot” Poole. We are now exposing the threats of harm and property damage he has sent to the editorial staff of Tripfags.com per email.
Tripfags.com's CEO and chief editor, Michael Horowitz, has received various death threats via phone and email since the article was published in late March this year. In fear of his life, we have been silent about it until now.
It all started just hours after the article was published and went viral around the web. It received international attention. Horowitz was sent a threatening, yet subtle email from Poole demanding its removal.
Date: Wed, 28 March 2012 03:22:15 -0500
From: moot <moot@4chan.org>
To: admin@tripfags.com
Subject: Remove this article right now.
http://tripfags.com/2012/03/moot-raped-a-girl-from-soc.html
Remove this article or let's just say maintaining uptime on 4chon will become somewhat tricky.
Not to be deterred, Horowitz responded in a reasonable fashion:
Date: Wed, 29 March 2012 01:12:52 +1000
From: Michael Horowitz <michael@tripfags.com>
To: moot <moot@4chan.org>
Subject: Re: Remove this article right now.
Sue me. The truth is going to get out whether you like it or not.
A second threat followed.
Date: Wed, 29 March 2012 15:52:01 -0500
From: moot <moot@4chan.org>
To: Michael Horowitz <michael@tripfags.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Remove this article right now.
I know people. You should watch your back.
Horowitz, a firm believer in the values of freedom of speech and press, did not give in. He was prepared to take this case all the way to court. The people had a right to know and Horowitz knew it was his duty to tell them. Shortly before, a tip was submitted to Tripfags.com informing us that any mention of our website was now blocked from being posted on 4chan.
Date: Wed, 30 March 2012 09:02:43 +1000
From: Michael Horowitz <michael@tripfags.com>
To: moot <moot@4chan.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Remove this article right now.
What exactly are you going to do about it? If you try anything, I am prepared to take this to court. Don't underestimate me, moot.
I heard you blacklisted tripfags.com as ``spam
on 4chan. Nice ``free speech website.
Poole responded:
Date: Wed, 29 March 2012 22:36:31 -0500
From: moot <moot@4chan.org>
To: Michael Horowitz <michael@tripfags.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Remove this article right now.
Delete the article, you don't know what you're talking about
It was at that point that Horowitz started getting harassing phone calls and death threats. He stopped replying, but moot kept at it.
Date: Wed, 3 April 2012 12:07:59-0500
From: moot <moot@4chan.org>
To: Michael Horowitz <michael@tripfags.com>
Subject: Delete the article
Remove the article about me from your site. Or at least get your facts straight...
Horowitz's inbox was flooded with that email for a full week.
Date: Wed, 10 April 2012 11:44:07-0500
From: moot <moot@4chan.org>
To: Michael Horowitz <michael@tripfags.com>
Subject: Your site is going down
REMOVE THAT FUCKING ARTICLE RIGHT NOW. I'M NOT KIDDING.
DELETE IT.
To nobody's surprise, moot also made formal complaints to our web host and domain registrar. After an obviously fraudulent copyright claim was sent by moot to Dynadot, our registrar at the time, we were forced to transfer the tripfags.com domain elsewhere.
Date: Mon, 11 April 2012 15:55:27 -0700
From: Dynadot Accounts <accounts@dynadot.com>
To: *REDACTED*
Subject: Copyright Complaint (account *REDACTED*)
Dear Michael,
We received a Copyright complaint against tripfags.com for the articles about Christopher Poole on the following pages
http://tripfags.com/
http://tripfags.com/2012/03/moot-raped-a-girl-from-soc.html
This is against our Service Agreement. Please remove the copyrighted material from your domain.
If we do not receive a response from you within 2 days of this email, we will disable tripfags.com.
Best Regards,
Dynadot Staff
(account *REDACTED*)
To this day, there is still a Tripfags.com blackout at 4chan. Try posting a link to here and you will get the following error message.
Error: Our system thinks your post is spam. Please reformat and try again.
This isn't the first time moot has tried to cripple sites he doesn't like. He introduced a one-day autoban for posters mentioning Horowitz's other creation, 4chon.net, back in January 2011. It still exists today.
It is clear to us and it should now be clear to you that Christopher Poole, despite his claims, does not care at all about free speech. In fact, he is committed to hiding the truth and regularly hands out bans to those whom he has disagreements with. He is mentally unstable and needs to be impeached immediately.
Christopher Poole is founder of 4chan.org and Canvas Networks.
*Sorry for the shitty formatting --- I copy and pasted the article for lazy fucks like me who don't click links.