the end of cnn? it's like they want to be tmz...

I do hope they go by the wayside, SNL and others exist if we just want FAKE NEWS with a slant.
They ARE TMZ.....nothing but fake sensationalized reporting. ( notice I did NOT use the word news )

Julian Assange‏ @Real_Assange 2h2 hours ago

A multi-billion dollar TV network blackmailing a private citizen into not making funny videos about it is not journalism, CNN. #CNNBlackmail

#fakeoutrage

# FAKENEWSORGANIZATION

so you have problems with wikileaks exposing illegal activity, you're certain trump and russia colluded despite there not being even a single shred of evidence, but CNN threatens to dox a 15 year old because he did something they didn't like and you just can't quite muster up rage for that, huh? there's America for you...

someone at 8ch doxed everyone at cnn... names, addresses, phone numbers, spouses numbers... #cnnblackmail has been trending on twitter for over 12 hours... even far left news sources are calling what cnn did despicable...

doxed...??? 🤔

I agree. They should have just published the kids identity... letting him stay anonymous just because he promised to be a good boy from here forward makes it look like they are holding something over him.

^that actually makes sense... if they just doxed him out the gate this controversy would be 1/10 of what it is... #cnnblackmail is such a catchy hashtag...

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past tense: doxed; past participle: doxed
search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent.
"hackers and online vigilantes routinely dox both public and private figures"

Joel, if the kid was a black democrat maybe Victor and teedubya would say something different. But everyone has a role here, and they're just doing their jobs....n stuff

Someone doxed me at a party.........I really don't remember a thing 😰

So the kid made a gif of Trump body slamming CNN? Then Trump tweeted it?

Was there a crime? I see memes and gifs all the time... what did the kid do wrong? And why would he feel "threatened" if CNN told the world who he is? Why would CNN even care who he is?

While I appreciate yall making up things you say I think, and arguing with that, don't confuse that with reality.

I didn't know it was a kid, didn't know their color, didn't know their party etc... complete nonsense

I do have problems with wikileaks only because it is illegal activity (I also take issue with illegal aliens simply because the law has been broken... I may disagree with a lot of the disinformation surrounding the subject but the illegal part is good enough for me). Trump now finds wiki bad when he praised it prior, but I have always taken issue with it. I'm for following proper whistleblower channels, and have actually followed them on a thing or two. You can't take the law in to your own hands. That's how aliens justify their actions. Its not ok for individuals to follow their own laws when they disagree with the real ones. Let me rephrase that... its ok but there are and must be consequences. We can not be lawless.

I have never been certain or even thought trump colluded with russia. Not sure where you got that but it is incorrect. I do take issue with any other country hacking us and using the info no matter who it helps or hurts. It is not legal. I sort of believe in the laws.

So there is that... LOL

I too think they should have just reported it. My guess is the family begged them not to rather than blackmail. But who knows.

I'm just not immediately outraged because when more info comes out often the immediately outraged end up red faced.... or they just deny or ignore the facts ....

or make up other peoples positions and argue with that rather than the reality.

I don't think anyone is saying there is a crime. The kid just doesn't want people to know his controversial posts are his... not someone to really rally behind

As trumps tweets are official presidential statements anything he tweets is "news" and the news looked into who he is retweeting. He was retweeting an internet troll who posts a bunch of racist crap.

The news tried to identify who the person tweeting racist crap on the internet was (not itself news but made news by trumps retweeting of them). It isn't a crime, so the kid could just say "sure publish who I am I'm proud of being a racist". But apparently the kid got a little afraid of people in the real world hearing what he says online. So he cut some sort of deal with cnn.

If the kid is only 15 yo, maybe it's the parents who don't want their lives turned inside out, and they will do everything in their power to keep their privacy from being destroyed

According to a few sources it's an adult not an adolescent.

CNN:

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.




so yeah, read that and think what you will. Their response was a joke, just like their network. And again, I didn't vote for #MAGA

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