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CNN Doxxes a gif maker

Argumemnon said:
What? How is it a game to point out that being a public figure has nothing to do with it, which you YOURSELF admitted when I pointed it out?
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It DOES have something to do with it, it's just not the ONLY thing.

Again, why are these things not obvious to you?
 
The Big Dog said:
well if you say so....
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He makes all of these aggressive gifs, by his own admission, and posts them on a well known forum to spread them to everyone. One of them goes viral that causes people to look into it. This MADE him a public figure and, also, private citizens are also public figures. Like movie stars, YouTube actors, journalists.

If this guy weren't a public figure we wouldn't be talking about his actions, which led to the person himself.

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Argumemnon said:
If you keep changing your story, then it can't really be that obvious.

I'll leave you to your usual games.
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I haven't changed anything. I left out something because it was obvious and shouldn't need saying. And you've been trying to make an issue of it ever since. That's the only game going on here.
 
Ziggurat said:
I haven't changed anything. I left out something because it was obvious and shouldn't need saying. And you've been trying to make an issue of it ever since. That's the only game going on here.
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You brought up the criteria. I pointed out that one of those criteria is irrelevant. If you want to call that a game, fine, but it's a stupid thing to say.
 
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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As soon as we learned that Trump re-tweeted yet another alt-reicher, the identity of that person arguably mattered.
 
BobTheCoward said:
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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I think there's a Georgia law (CNN is based in Altlanta) being referenced at the moment that is basically defining a kind of blackmail as threatening to reveal someone's name for the purpose of social ridicule unless they do whatever.
 
Ziggurat said:
Why?
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The president is dabbling in a community that few people know what this community thinks or how much influence they have. It is similar to piercing the veil of ALEC meetings or reelection donors. Except in this case it is the people generating content for their internet outreach.
 
Beerina said:
I think there's a Georgia law (CNN is based in Altlanta) being referenced at the moment that is basically defining a kind of blackmail as threatening to reveal someone's name for the purpose of social ridicule unless they do whatever.
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If it needed a separate law, then i guess it isn't blackmail.
 
BobTheCoward said:
If it needed a separate law, then i guess it isn't blackmail.
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Which technically doesn't matter here anyway. They wouldn't be naming him for the purpose of having him ridiculed. They would be naming him during the process of reporting a story about an event that is current. The law changes nothing and doesn't apply here.

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Beerina said:
If it needed a separate law, then I guess it is blackmail.

I was just mentioning it in passing. Not sure what your point is.
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If they outlawed blackmail with older laws, they wouldn't have needed an additional law to address this. So, what happened wouldn't be blackmail.
 
plague311 said:
Which technically doesn't matter here anyway. They wouldn't be naming him for the purpose of having him ridiculed. They would be naming him during the process of reporting a story about an event that is current. The law changes nothing and doesn't apply here.

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This. They found the guy to interview him.

Why would anyone even ridicule poor Hanassholesolo ?
 
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