{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Stephen Bannon once guided a global firm that made millions helping gamers cheat", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/163810988008/", "html": "<a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/steve-bannon-once-guided-a-global-firm-that-made-millions-helping-gamers-cheat/2017/08/04/ef7ae442-76c8-11e7-803f-a6c989606ac7_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_bannonchina-1210p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.73f1ae097e62\">Stephen Bannon once guided a global firm that made millions helping gamers cheat</a>\n<p><a href=\"http://songsaboutswords.tumblr.com/post/163796511271/stephen-bannon-once-guided-a-global-firm-that-made\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">songsaboutswords</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http://songsaboutswords.tumblr.com/post/163796410401/stephen-bannon-once-guided-a-global-firm-that-made\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">songsaboutswords</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><b>\u201cBannon was the adult in the room,\u201d the person said. \u201cYou\u2019re dealing with the gaming community, you\u2019re dealing with kids.\u201d</b></i><br/></p>\n<p>GAMERGATE 2</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBannon became fascinated with the collective power of the gamers who gathered on these sites\u201d<br/></p>\n<p>\u201cThese guys, these rootless white males, had monster power,\u201d Bannon told Green.\u00a0<br/></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Just think, \u201cthe shadowy ethnonationalist advisor helping the President to undo the entire post-60s settlement draws on his experience as Goldman Sachs\u2019 liaison to a Hong Kong WoW gold farming company run by the guy who played young Emilio Estevez in Mighty Ducks\u201d would have sounded weird as recently as 2015</p>"}