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Did CNN threaten to dox the Trump wrestling gif maker unless he stops doing similar things?

 
 
 
Jason Harvestdancer said:
Arctish said:
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking.

Are you asking why this incident caught people's attention, or why people thought it warranted public discussion, or why CNN went looking for the guy who created the gif and asked him for an interview? Or are you asking something like "why has this particular instance of Trump's juvenile, needy, egotistical behavior resulted in media attention when his juvenile, needy, egotistical behavior is already well documented?"
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I would like to know why CNN felt this was so overwhelmingly important that they had to dig out this guy's identity and threaten to reveal it unless he confessed his sins and recanted at their altar. Was this little clip really that much of an ordeal for those who own CNN?
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The article I read said that he apologized before they could interview him. But after he found out they had his name and tried to contact him. Fake news?
 
I think that this may be from the CNN guy having worked previously at the more casual Buzzfeed.

I don't think that just because a person is "private citizen" on reddit or other board that means he should never be brought to light. But the threshold depends on the news website. This was buzzfeed level news worthy. That is not a slight, but just reality.

It seems they were trying to taint Trump (who needs no tainting) with the other stuff that the gif-maker did on other threads.

So, was he worthy of that treatment for that? Honest question.

I would bet that some here would agree that the doxers of CNN staff on 8chan and 4chan are themselves worthy of a full unmasking - granted that it is accurate.

This below was an 8chan unmasking of the Berkeley bike lock attacker:

 
ZiprHead said:
Hanassholesolo wishing for people to be doxxed.
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What a timeline!

This is the guy who was threatened that HanAssholeSolo wanted his threateners doxxed:

Black Rebel, nice!

https://gopthedailydose.com/2017/05/08/just-antifa-thugs-place-bounty-head-black-patriot-defending-confederate-monuments-video/

You can send him money, zipperhead

https://www.paypal.me/BlackRebelDonation


AGAIN, people need to be clear about the distinction between doxxing and exposing/unmasking. I screwed up the OP by using doxxing.

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What is the difference between someone unmasking a youtuber who craps over White Nationalist (erm, Identitarian) youtubers or unmasking the White Nationalist youtubers themselves?
 
Jason Harvestdancer said:
Arctish said:
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking.

Are you asking why this incident caught people's attention, or why people thought it warranted public discussion, or why CNN went looking for the guy who created the gif and asked him for an interview? Or are you asking something like "why has this particular instance of Trump's juvenile, needy, egotistical behavior resulted in media attention when his juvenile, needy, egotistical behavior is already well documented?"
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I would like to know why CNN felt this was so overwhelmingly important that they had to dig out this guy's identity and threaten to reveal it unless he confessed his sins and recanted at their altar. Was this little clip really that much of an ordeal for those who own CNN?
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Loaded question, much?

The guy took credit for creating the clip under his pseudonym HanAssholeSolo, and said he was honored Trump tweeted it. CNN contacted him while others looked through his posts. I don't see this as any different from what a news agency typically does when the President of the United States of America cites someone's work. If they feel there's an interesting story there, they contact the author, artist, or creator and interview them. They do the background work necessary to present the work in context.

In this instance, the author/creator turned out to be a troll who was horrified to discover he hadn't done a very good job of concealing his identity. He apparently has said things he regrets and wants everyone to know he's really a nice guy who'd never say bad things about people IRL. CNN has respected his privacy by not naming him publicly, but it certainly didn't have to.

Trump was citing the work of a man who had expressed anti-Semitic and racist opinions. That's newsworthy. If the clip itself was trivial, blame Trump for calling attention to it. He was the one inserting troll droppings into the POTUS twitter feed.
 
I think that there are two things here.

A.) the guy posted stuff that pointed out the large amount of Jews that work for CNN (Stars of David) and also things about wanting Muslims dead or at least out of Europe and the US.

B.) Trump posted a video that may have had part of its origin in a reworking of this guy's gif and that his not readily seen other posts were somehow relevant.

This post by MovieBob is pretty cool (took me 20 minutes to find it to see it was real)

https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/882619809242001409

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If only CNN would work half as hard getting the identities of all these unnamed sources being used in new stories these days.
 
Shadowy Man said:
Jason Harvestdancer said:
I would like to know why CNN felt this was so overwhelmingly important that they had to dig out this guy's identity and threaten to reveal it unless he confessed his sins and recanted at their altar. Was this little clip really that much of an ordeal for those who own CNN?
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The article I read said that he apologized before they could interview him. But after he found out they had his name and tried to contact him. Fake news?
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Yes, that's the point.

The articles CNN posted showed they tried to contact him by phone and email. Now they could have used Tumblr messaging, but instead they used phone and email. That is definitely showing him that they know who he is, as an individual, even though he did not answer them at that time.

After they told him (by using phone and email) that they know who he is, then after that he posted the apology, then after that he returned CNN's call.

Had CNN's journalism said "but we won't be revealing his name because he is a private citizen" and left it at that, there would be a lot less fuss. Instead they continued their statement with saying that they won't reveal his name because he has apologized. AND they reserved the right to release his name in the future if they thought he wasn't behaving the way they would like.

All over a harmless internet meme. He gave them butthurt. We don't know what is in the email CNN sent to him, but it was apparently enough to scare him into compliance.
 
No, it was over his antisemitism (in my opinion unmasking jews is not antisemitic) as the largest secondary motivator.

Trying to break down that community by stopping them from telling the truth.
 
Jason Harvestdancer said:
All over a harmless internet meme. He gave them butthurt. We don't know what is in the email CNN sent to him, but it was apparently enough to scare him into compliance.
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I think there's more to this than a harmless meme.
At least, there's a story, there.

I was curious when I saw Trump's tweet, wondering if he had the skills (and the time) to craft this, or did he hire/direct someone to do it for him? Did he find it online and what sort of websites does our president cruise in order to find such things to tweet? What sort of person made this and was the intention to harm CNN reporters by inciting violence or was it just for shits and giggles?

The guy who swore he'd be too busy MAGAfying to golf, now is tweeting bullshit in a pissing contest with an entire network. I'd say the details of who all was involved are news. Maybe not as newsworthy as what Trump will do to stop Russian interference, since whatever Obama did wasn't enough, but a story, anyway.
 
Jason Harvestdancer said:
If this was over anti-Semitism, there wouldn't be people seeing CNN as the villain and calling this blackmail.
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This is one of the images he reportedly posted:




Putting it in a spoiler because it pisses a lot of people off and don't want to disrupt the thread too much.
 
Jason Harvestdancer said:
If this was over anti-Semitism, there wouldn't be people seeing CNN as the villain and calling this blackmail.
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You don't seem to have the pulse of the right-wing at all. Right-wingers get upset when CNN and the like report Trump's tweets and they call it "fake news".
 
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