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CNN Doxxes a gif maker

The Big Dog said:
CNN has appeared to abandon news of any sort and instead is doxxing some nobody who made a funny GIF.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.html

what a buncha pussies
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TBD is wrong. CNN didn't "doxx" anyone

CNN did investigative research, and found the person who created the GIF (Hanassholesolo) that @POTUS tweeted and tried to contact him to speak with him.

CNN then wrote an article and specifically did not publish the mans name.

Hanassholesolo should proudly stand up to be recognized and own his GIF and all the rest of his posts.
 
TheL8Elvis said:
TBD is wrong. CNN didn't "doxx" anyone

CNN did investigative research, and found the person who created the GIF (Hanassholesolo) that @POTUS tweeted and tried to contact him to speak with him.

CNN then wrote an article and specifically did not publish the mans name.

Hanassholesolo should proudly stand up to be recognized and own his GIF and all the rest of his posts.
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TBD forgot to mention that the reporter who did the research and discovered the maker of the GIF is now receiving death threats.
 
thaiboxerken said:
I agree that they did not approach this the correct way. They should have immediately published the guy's name.
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Agreed. It's not the job of a news organization to withhold information. And it's flat out weird to use identity as threatened punishment.
 
varwoche said:
Agreed. It's not the job of a news organization to withhold information.
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News organizations including CNN withhold information all the bloody time. It's very much their job. They have a limited amount of bandwidth, any decision to report something is necessarily a decision to not report something else.

And it's flat out weird to use identity as threatened punishment.
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They shouldn't have threatened punishment, they should have just punished. Is that the idea? Because that's exactly what Ken is saying.
 
Ziggurat said:
They shouldn't have threatened punishment, they should have just punished. Is that the idea? Because that's exactly what Ken is saying.
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Calling it punishment is a misnomer. It may have negative consequences, but publishing as part of a story is neither punishment or retribution. CNN should simply have published Hanassholesolos name as part of the story.
 
Ziggurat said:
News organizations including CNN withhold information all the bloody time. It's very much their job. They have a limited amount of bandwidth, any decision to report something is necessarily a decision to not report something else.
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Seeing as they used more bandwidth explaining the non revelation, your observation is nonsensical. And your wisdom about the job of a news organization is absurdly literal.
 
I don't know about his other posts, but the guy owes no one an apology for the GIF. Well, maybe the WWE for using their content.
 
TheL8Elvis said:
Calling it punishment is a misnomer. It may have negative consequences, but publishing as part of a story is neither punishment or retribution. CNN should simply have published Hanassholesolos name as part of the story.
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What possible purpose would it serve? The only results I can see coming out of that are negative. Except maybe for scaring him into not posting the other crap he's been doing.
 
alfaniner said:
That is very like a gif I might have made if I'd thought of it. Just for the bizarre humor of it. If asked to apologize I'd say "Hell no!". However, no malice or incitement would be intended on my part. And I don't have the posting history that guy does.
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But you'd be making the same mistake every novice artist makes, thinking your intended message and the message the audience receives will look remotely similar.

The President of the United States pummeling and dominating "journalism" in a display of proto-homonid violence has a clear subtext aside from "the lulz", a lack of awareness of that subtext on the author's part doesn't mean it isn't there.

Then when that very same President retweets it (official White House statement?) that's a whole different ball game.

Once you publish you basically surrender control over it's "meaning."

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Delphic Oracle said:
The President of the United States pummeling and dominating "journalism" in a display of proto-homonid violence has a clear subtext aside from "the lulz", a lack of awareness of that subtext on the author's part doesn't mean it isn't there.
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Oh, come on. It sounds as if this guy has made some hateful posts (according to CNN) but the wrestling one is a harmless trash joke. We would have to be hysterically hypersensitive to be triggered by it.
 
alfaniner said:
What possible purpose would it serve? The only results I can see coming out of that are negative. Except maybe for scaring him into not posting the other crap he's been doing.
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There's a reason Hanassholesolo doesn't want his reddit posts linked to him IRL, as you alluded to.

Off the top of my head, it might cause other people to also think twice before making posts on the Internet that they don't want to own IRL.

You're free to make the speech you want (within the limits of the constitution), you're not guaranteed to be free from the public opinion/consequences of that speech.
 
Giz said:
Oh, come on. It sounds as if this guy has made some hateful posts (according to CNN) but the wrestling one is a harmless trash joke. We would have to be hysterically hypersensitive to be triggered by it.
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I don't have any complaints against the guy who created it. The problem is that The PDJT retweeted it sans comment. If he had added something like -- "I thought this was funny" it would have put a different spin on it. As it is, it seems like an endorsement.
 
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