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CNN Warns It May Expose An Anonymous Critic If He Ever Again Publishes Bad Content (theintercept.com)
New submitter evolutionary writes: CNN appears to be giving veiled threats at a Reddit user who posted critical comments about the media giant. After an apology was given by the Reddit user (possibly under fear upon discovering CNN had his identity), CNN stated: "CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change." The story stems around Trump's July 2nd tweet, which includes a video showing him wrestle and takedown someone with a photoshopped CNN logo on their head. The video was accompanied by the hashtags #FraudNewsCNN and #FNN. CNN reportedly tracked down the Reddit user who claimed credit for the tweet and announced they would not publicize the user's identity since they issued a lengthy public apology, promised not to repeat the behavior, and claimed status as a private citizen. However, as The Intercept reports, "the network explicitly threatened that it could change its mind about withholding the user's real name if this behavior changes in the future: '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.'"
It's now open season on doxing any CNN sources and employees. Home addresses, phone #s and emails. Dump it if you've got it.
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Oh no! The president tweets memes like every other person... News at 11. Oh no the origination of many memes comes from the ass holes of the internet. Oh no only idiots that don't understand memes link the two and think that someone posting an innocuous meme is secretly a racist anti-semitic homophobe because 4chan....
Do you listen to yourself? It's sad that posting a meme rubs CNN the wrong way and even worse their response.
His information was already public so it's not like they dug up private information anyway like Drudge and the like would have you believe. .
His name was not public, they paid people to work to discover his identity. Why were they even looking for him in the first place? they had no idea about his other horrible posts. Witch hunts are OK if you happen to find a witch? That seems to be your rationalization.