What the hell CNN

[The Grand Nudger]

When the president started tweeting them, and the press secretary told us to consider his tweets official statements.

Parse the absurdity, for a moment. POTUS was using a reddit troll as a speechwriter, in effect. Insult to injury, some people™ are super upset that said presidential copy writer almost got credited for his work.........

GG america.

[Aegon]

Lol what? They literally said, "we have his information, we were going to release it but he apologized. But if he recants his apology we're going to do it."  Find the CNN Politics article,  I'm in mobile. You wouldn't call that a threat?

No...Aegon..-you- find that.  That's how that works.

Lmao you're making statements but you didn't even read CNN's article about it! Just automatically into defense mode, probably because CNN told you "No we didn't threaten to dox him!" And you automatically believed it.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/k...index.html

CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.

CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.

You know, you don't HAVE to defend CNN just because Trump hates them. You can admit they fucked up.

[The Grand Nudger]

I did read the article, but thanks anyway. I was expecting you to have somthing else.  I don't think they fucked up, they obviously didn't dox him, and I don't see a threat there.

[Aegon]

Lol ok

[vorlon13]

It's not like CNN was going to dox him with the hope he would wind up clocked in the head with a bicycle lock . . . .


oh, wait, that's the point of doing it, and sending a message to others similarly disposed to rankle their hackles in the future.

[The Grand Nudger]

I find it ironic that people supposedly opposed to shitty news are inventing a litany of #alternative narratives to get worked up about.  It's almost as if we've collectively swallowed the disinformation kool-aid.

Mission accomplished, comrades?

[Autumnlicious]

- man publicly posts repeat occurrences call for the death of an entire people (genocide)
- man also posts publicly information about his identity
- The President Of The United States retweets one of his Tweets, making him 10x more newsworthy
- man realizes he can easily be identified for his continuous calls for violence and genocide and wants to avoid that

And we're seeing people blame CNN?

For a publicly identifiable racist?

What?

Yeah, fuck you too dyresand. You're why I left Reddit. Nothing is free online. Not even racism or calls for violence. Say that shit when publicly identifying yourself, you asked for it.

It's called "accountability".

If you don't want that, don't fucking post PUBLIC INFORMATION of your identity. Is this someone's first day on the internet? Because it's always been this way.

[dyresand]

- man publicly posts repeat occurrences call for the death of an entire people (genocide)
- man also posts publicly information about his identity
- The President Of The United States retweets one of his Tweets, making him 10x more newsworthy
- man realizes he can easily be identified for his continuous calls for violence and genocide and wants to avoid that

And we're seeing people blame CNN?

For a publicly identifiable racist?

What?

Yeah, fuck you too dyresand. You're why I left Reddit. Nothing is free online. Not even racism or calls for violence. Say that shit when publicly identifying yourself, you asked for it.

It's called "accountability".

If you don't want that, don't fucking post PUBLIC INFORMATION of your identity. Is this someone's first day on the internet? Because it's always been this way.

Have you seen the shit on the internet throwing someones personal name out there could get someone hurt and killed. 
Threatening to release someones personal information is one thing and that being illegal. CNN did illegal things getting said persons information and threating
said person to release it. CNN was in the wrong i am not protecting said person i call it like it see it. After all the shit i have seen on the internet that guys reddits posts are tame
to whats out there that what you can see read. 

on a side note i quit later all or what ever.

[The Grand Nudger]

What illegal things did CNN do to get that information..and when did they threaten him?  Where did -you- get this information..from the super credible alternative news sources?  CNN followed up on a story of public interest by leveraging publicly available information.  Turns out there was no story, because the presidents twitter ghostwriter wasn;t actually a flamingly violent anti-semite at all..just a troll who played one on reddit.  Surprise, surprise.  

I'm gathering that the threat you think is there or was made was that CNN plainly stated they would release what they had should anything he stated when reached for comment change.  If he, for example..started claiming that he was a flamingly violent anti-semite IRL, or that they hacked him, or that they threatened him.  Well, OFC they would..and they're right, that -is- within their right to do.  In fact, it's their fucking -job- to do so.  

The man himself doesn't appear to feel very threatened by anything other than the embarrassment of his own stupid ass posts, but I guess you and Ted Cruz think he should be so very, very afraid, so......

Personally, I think that you should have quit, or whatever, -before- you got yourself worked up over some bullshit and started writing fan fic about it.

[Autumnlicious]

I just don't understand why people who publicly call for violence with their public identities should somehow be protected from criticism.

That doesn't make any sense.