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teedubbya
Herf-A-Holic

9 years ago

#141

Trump is a one man wrecking ball with his tweets. think of all the crap that wouldn't be happening if he didn't tweet..

opelmanta1900
Herf-A-Holic Topic Starter

9 years ago

#142

... this sort of fits under "if you're gonna do the crime you gotta be prepared to do the time"...

He posted inflammatory crap for attention anonymously. It got bigger than he anticipated however that was ALWAYS the risk, whether he knew it or not. Your boss could read your dumb azz posts at any point in time, just by dumb luck. Anyone you know may at any time run across your anonymous posts and put enough info together to figure out they know you in real life. This is just a difference in scale.

victor809 wrote:

many doubt this is what happened in this case though... in fact, the more andrew went into how he tracked this guy down, the more unbelievable it was... general concensus among (not me) those in the know - andrew went to cnn's parent company and got ip addresses...

and I agree that anything you post anonymously is always in danger of being exposed... but how would you feel if fox news made a portfolio of every bad thing you'd ever posted online about anything - even things taken out of context - and gave it to your boss and your girlfriend and everyone else you know? for one, I know you'd sue the sh*t out of fox, that's for sure...

opelmanta1900
Herf-A-Holic Topic Starter

9 years ago

#143

Trump is a one man wrecking ball with his tweets. think of all the crap that wouldn't be happening if he didn't tweet..

teedubbya wrote:

if I had the ability, I'd redo miley's wrecking ball video with a trump head...

victor809
Herf-A-Holic

9 years ago

#144

I am pretty sure I wouldn't have an issue with any of the publicly posted items released non anonymously. Unless there is something I've forgotten in the past I am pretty consistent about only posting using opinions and language which I would be comfortable having associated with my name. Additionally, I understand that my agreement with my IP provider doesn't guarantee my anonymity. If I want that I would use a VPN and proxy. If I happen to be doing something I don't want traced back to my name I have used this in the past. But even that pu ts you at the mercy of that providor.

Additionally, CNN did not take a portfolio of every bad thing this idiot said. They were talking about his name, not a collection of his online activity. Only what others could gather by searching a Reddit username... which he voluntarily made public by posting to Reddit under a consistent username. That was already public for anyone who wanted to accumulate it

teedubbya
Herf-A-Holic

9 years ago

#145

if I had the ability, I'd redo miley's wrecking ball video with a trump head...

opelmanta1900 wrote:

careful... you know miley, trump, and their posse are trying to kill all memes about them

fishinguitarman
Herf-A-Holic

9 years ago

#146

careful... you know miley, trump, and their posse are trying to kill all memes about them

teedubbya wrote:

Sup TDUB

teedubbya
Herf-A-Holic

9 years ago

#147

Sup

delta1
Herf-A-Holic

9 years ago

#148

Here's the likely scenario: CNN does research and discovers the source of the meme. CNN also learns that the source is the author of bigoted trash on his website. CNN doing its diligence, contacts the person to confirm the facts, and tells the dude they are doing a story about the origin of the Trump vs CNN video and will publish his identity and hometown and age, usual identifying details in stories such as this.

The dude, who is likely a family man who is a respected member of his community, has a great job with a company that needs the support of a diverse public, has a position at his church, and possibly has his eyes on a vacant city council seat, panics and arranges a deal with CNN. He offers to delete his website and never post anything like that again if CNN would PLEASE, PLEASE, not release his name.

I don't really know...but that is most likely what happened...

ZRX1200
Herf-A-Holic

9 years ago

#149

LMFAO.....Good one.

It was on Reddit btw, and he cleared his history there and his user name. Not some website he ran.

jjanecka
Herf-A-Holic

9 years ago

#150

Hell Delta, he's probably been voted into congress by the Democrat party by now.

gummy jones
Herf-A-Holic

9 years ago

#151

I'm just glad cnn is policing the internet and finally id'd the head honcho

The interwebs are safe again

delta1
Herf-A-Holic

9 years ago

#152

LMFAO.....Good one.

It was on Reddit btw, and he cleared his history there and his user name. Not some website he ran.

ZRX1200 wrote:

What's Readdit?

I'm just glad cnn is policing the internet and finally id'd the head honcho

The interwebs are safe again

gummy jones wrote:

Glad they finally put that Al Gore fella into a lockbox...

Edited by user 9 years ago | Reason: Not specified

jjanecka
Herf-A-Holic

9 years ago

#153

I'm just glad cnn is policing the internet and finally id'd the head honcho

The interwebs are safe again

gummy jones wrote:

This is just too damn funny

opelmanta1900
Herf-A-Holic Topic Starter

9 years ago

#154

Nah he learns by arguing which is why he keeps moving the goalposts.

teedubbya wrote:

How dare you! I might make my days go by faster by arguing, but i will not remain silent whilst being accused of learning from it...

teedubbya
Herf-A-Holic

9 years ago

#155

I'm sorry.

It is how I learn though. I rarely discount someone elses opinion even while arguing against it. The fence post thing is a badge of honor in here. While some in here think it's a virtue to stick to your opinion even when it's pretty well proven wrong, I'll change mine if you convince me.