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"Kickstarter has issued an apology for allowing a funding drive for a book titled Above The Game: A Guide to Getting Awesome. The so-called &amp;#039;seduction guide&amp;#039; caused offence across the internet after excerpts of it were posted onto social news website Reddit, with users claiming it promotes sexual violence and degrades women. Kickstarter has since admitted that it was &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot; not to pull the plug on the project, and explained the factors that influenced its decision. &amp;quot;The decision had to be made immediately. We had only two hours from when we found out about the material to when the project was ending. We&amp;#039;ve never acted to remove a project that quickly,&amp;quot; said the firm in a statement. &amp;quot;Our processes, and everyday thinking, bias heavily toward creators. This is deeply ingrained. We feel a duty to our community - and our creators especially - to approach these investigations methodically as there is no margin for error in cancelling a project. This thinking made us miss the forest for the trees. &amp;quot;These factors don&amp;#039;t excuse our decision but we hope they add clarity to how we arrived at it.&amp;quot;  Kickstarter went on to reiterate that content &amp;quot;promoting or glorifying violence&amp;quot; is banned, adding that it would have removed Above The Game had it known the nature of the project beforehand. However, the book&amp;#039;s author Ken Hoinsky will not be stripped of the funding he raised as the firm &amp;quot;missed the window&amp;quot; to enforce this. Kickstarter has pledged to donate $25,000 to anti-sexual violence organisation RAINN to underline its standpoint. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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