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CNN Doxxes a gif maker

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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There is no point to such a story other than punishment. He is not a public figure, his name is of no actual interest to the public.
 
TheL8Elvis said:
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.
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Kind of like how we punish criminals to deter other potential criminals.
 
TheL8Elvis said:
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.
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On the flipside of that coin, if someone posts anonymously (or pseudonymously) due to fears of retaliation they could be chilled into silence. If (say) a gay man in a muslim community is doxxed in a similar manner the precedent has already been set for it to be acceptable, and honour killings have happened.
 
alfaniner said:
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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He didn't "retweet" it. First, reddit is not a tweet, second, what Trump posted is not a GIF, it's a video with sound, a diffferent cut and a FNN logo added. It's a derivitive work. Nobody so far knows how Trump came to tweet it. The connection to the reddit post is indirect at best.

CNN now has the Internet's special forces red hot angry against them. They will regret it deeply. The power of one presidential tweet.
 
Ziggurat said:
There is no point to such a story other than punishment. He is not a public figure, his name is of no actual interest to the public.
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He is not a public figure, his name is of no interest, therefore it can only be punishment.

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TheL8Elvis said:
He is not a public figure, his name is of no interest, therefore it can only be punishment.

:eek:
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You already conceded that the point was punishment. Pour encourager les autres, to paraphrase your own post. Why do you feign surprise?
 
Argumemnon said:
Really? So when someone's, say, arrested for murder, and they name the suspect, he was a public figure at the time of the crime?
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A person being a public figure isn't the only reason a story might be of public interest. Crimes are of public interest regardless of who commits them, for reasons which should be obvious. A random joke on the internet is not of public interest.

I would have thought such things went without saying, but apparently not.
 
Ziggurat said:
A person being a public figure isn't the only reason a story might be of public interest. Crimes are of public interest regardless of who commits them, for reasons which should be obvious. A random joke on the internet is not of public interest.

I would have thought such things went without saying, but apparently not.
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Well, that was where I was leading, actually.

How is this not of public interest, knowing that the source of the altered video is a (pretend?) right-wing white supremacist?

How do you determine what's of public interest? Aside from partisan considerations, I mean.
 
Ziggurat said:
There is no point to such a story other than punishment. He is not a public figure, his name is of no actual interest to the public.
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He became a public figure. The methods people become a public figure isn't fair, but that isn't part of the criteria.

There have been enough connections between the president, that subreddit, and malicious messaging that I think the identity of a notable member is newsworthy.
 
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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Ziggurat said:
You already conceded that the point was punishment. Pour encourager les autres, to paraphrase your own post. Why do you feign surprise?
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I don't think I did.
 
I see the words blackmail getting tossed around other places. Generally, blackmail involves the revealing of compromising information. This doesn't involve the reveal of compromising information because the compromising information is public. So not blackmail?
 
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