I mean, that's obviously far worse than anything CNN has done.
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Reddit troll apologizes for trump CNN gif/all those racist remarks
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Yeah I mean obviously I don't agree with that thought process. I was just making the point that even if you did come to that conclusion you would weigh things and realize the guy got off easy either way.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
He still thinks he can win over the Trump wing after they roundly rejected him.
That'd be great.
CNN: Because of pressure from the right, we have decided to release the information. With this information in the public there can be no accusations of it being held as blackmail.
Guess who's jumping into the fray...
After Trump's ludicrous display with MSNBC last week, the GOP are going to latch onto this thing and hump it to death to prove the left is "just as bad".
Saint Gregory
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His base will applaud him for it.
I would encourage them to do that as it will invariably lead to even worse stuff being exposed about the guy.
Fortunately for him he won't be subject to the "he's no angel" treatment that the people he wanted to victimize have to endure.
Well not his base, I meant the earnest posters on GAF.
TimeEffect
Member
How can it be a small part of the population though? I mean, every kid in a high school today in North America is connected to a phone, follow a bunch of overnight celebrities who arent held accountable to any standards, who hear a bunch of ideas that would never be said in a public setting....
Id say this is an emerging population that will soon take over... and that older populations are also not ignorant of the internet and what it normalizes either.
Saint Gregory
Member
Are you sure they're not one and the same?
Isaac Otherworld
Member
I have completely loss the plot of what's going on here about hansolo.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
#hedidnothingwrong
People have somehow found a way to turn yet another racist piece of shit into a victim via arguing about the semantics of doxxing
I am disappointed in Ted Cruz.
The man has a brilliant legal mind, and he knows very well this isn't "theft by extortion.".
Rafael graduated Harvard Law, was an Associate Attorney General of the US, and has successfully evaded prosecution for a number of serial murders. He knows better.
The man has a brilliant legal mind, and he knows very well this isn't "theft by extortion.".
Rafael graduated Harvard Law, was an Associate Attorney General of the US, and has successfully evaded prosecution for a number of serial murders. He knows better.
They should because as far as I know, he's contributing to the conspiracy with the whole IP address, never heard that before. Bring him on the air.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Guess who's jumping into the fray...
For example, if CNN were to threaten Ted Cruz over his past as the Zodiac Killer, it wouldn't be considered blackmail because that would generally improve his reputation.
Miles Quaritch
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Others called for a very personal form of revenge against CNN, and Kaczynski specifically. A link to a pastebin page that appeared to contain the personal identifying information of Kaczynski, some of his family members and his colleagues circulated on 4chan Wednesday morning. And the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website called for even more. A popular post called for CNN employees to quit their jobs and denounce the network, or face consequences if they didnt:
We are going to track down your parents.
We are going to track down your siblings.
We are going to track down your spouses.
We are going to track down your children. Because hey, thats what you guys get to do, right? Were going to see how you like it when our reporters are hunting down your children.
This is why CNN should have released the guys name. These cunts are feeling emboldened because they feel they are controlling the message over this. Just look at how many simple minds they've managed to influence across the internet, people still posting dumb shit about how they were threatening to 'dox' him... motherfuckers don't even seem to know what the word means.
What did he mean by this?
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This racist prick couldnt even get the name HanAssolo or even HanAssholo
O.v.e.rlord
Banned
Because you disagree with the main consensus. Your opinions don't matter now because pple are now going to assign labels to you to discredit your points. And reading and catching up on the situation it sounds to me like blackmail. "You say youre sorry for making thing or we tell everyone that you(as in his real name there) made a thing"
Honestly, they would have been better off if they just released his name from the beginning
Guess who's jumping into the fray...
Hrmm... Sounds mightily similar to what Trump did with the Enquirer story...
Wow I can't believe you just doxxed reddit users HanAssolo and HanAssholo.
BronsonLee
Member
At this point this ends one of two ways:
Trump publicly supports him, emboldens him to come out publicly himself. Homie gets some alt-right financial support but probably loses his job and such.
Someone else finds him and outs him. Homie gets less support, still loses job, holds ultimate L
Trump publicly supports him, emboldens him to come out publicly himself. Homie gets some alt-right financial support but probably loses his job and such.
Someone else finds him and outs him. Homie gets less support, still loses job, holds ultimate L
It's amazing how quickly people can victimize themselves and a guy who we still don't know any identifying information about because he wasn't "doxxed."
Fucking amazing.
You need to read further. No one asked for an apology.
Why should somebody's opinion matter more than another's? People are free to share their opinion but it doesn't need to be respected just because it's what somebody thinks.
But CNN did not do what you are saying. They said in the statement basically they could if they felt the need but they never told this guy that, they never threatened him when they already told him they wouldn't reveal his name and they didn't give conditions.
Darryl M R
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Both are huge L's for him. He doesn't want to be publicly associated with the alt-right. His fake apology was to avoid having his name be tied in with them. I bet he is crying at home wishing people would drop it.
Your paraphrase shows that you haven't read much. No one forced an apology.
sir_kevith
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You got who said what wrong. Very basic.
Hannassholesolo said "I said im sorry for making thing that blew up beyond my control, please dont tell everyone that I(as in my real name there) made anti-semitic, racist, and violent comments. Im not going to anymore and don't want it to come back to my family or friends"
They didn't ask for an apology.
https://twitter.com/perlberg/status/882629134668713985
You can stop feeling persecuted now.
BronsonLee
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Oh ya he definitely wants no part of this like Moriarty and other peeps did when they leaned into it
This is what happens when you start feelin' yourself on the net but then you get caught
They didn't ask for an apology.
https://twitter.com/perlberg/status/882629134668713985
You can stop feeling persecuted now.
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They didn't ask for an apology.
https://twitter.com/perlberg/status/882629134668713985
You can stop feeling persecuted now.
This was also CNN:
"After posting his apology, "HanA**holeSolo" called CNN's KFile and confirmed his identity. In the interview, "HanA**holeSolo" sounded nervous about his identity being revealed and asked to not be named out of fear for his personal safety and for the public embarrassment it would bring to him and his family.
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."
Sho_Nuff82
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He apologized and deleted his posts before CNN ever contacted him.
In the very quote you posted. In order for there to be blackmail, he would have had to change something under the threat of exposure. He changed voluntarily, and asked CNN not to reveal his real name because he was embarrassed and fearful. CNN agreed with his concern, and stated that he will remain anonymous as long as (and I repeat) he's not feeding the president of the United States hateful memes against his enemies.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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Is there some mastermind plot out there by some cartoon villain to make us all stupider, because wow. It's seeming like some stupid beam or some shit is frying our brains.
CNN did nothing to warrant anyone claiming any kind of blackmail or ransom or anything. The line about maybe releasing it in the future is boilerplate stuff, who knows what might happen in the future. It doesn't mean there's some sinister plot or something against the guy. Why would anyone sensible come to that conclusion, unless...
CNN did nothing to warrant anyone claiming any kind of blackmail or ransom or anything. The line about maybe releasing it in the future is boilerplate stuff, who knows what might happen in the future. It doesn't mean there's some sinister plot or something against the guy. Why would anyone sensible come to that conclusion, unless...
Hello? This is Hailun!
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That's not blackmail. Your puddle deep elementary grasp on concepts far above your ability doesn't make it blackmail either, no matter how badly you want it to be.
So in your mind CNN shouldn't have added that last line, they should not have kept things real and honest, and should have just kept the obvious to themselves. I mean maybe CNN did go a bit too far, in your mind clearly they did. But in the end a racist is protected and all is right in the world. You can say CNN should have better standards. Well I won't disagree with that, I'm not particularly a fan of CNN at the moment.
Saint Gregory
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What's funny is that's exactly what the strategy was for Russia to destabilize the USA in that "Foundations of Geopolitics" textbook.They didn't ask for an apology.
https://twitter.com/perlberg/status/882629134668713985
You can stop feeling persecuted now.
Make White Americans feel that they're being oppressed and persecuted by minorities -> ??? -> Profit?
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
You should actually read what you just posted. Specifically the first five words.
UnemployedVillain
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Russia? You realize this has been going on since plantation owners turned white indentured servants against slaves. This is as old as the US
And you think it's appropriate for them to hold his information hostage on the contingency that he ceases hateful memeing?
I'm not one of the people screaming blackmail. I'm just someone criticizing the wording used by CNN. I'm just disappointed this is how they chose to present it. Seems bush league. This wording just adds fuel to the fire.
That is literally the only thing I've been saying, but I've been labeled a sympathizer, a gamergater, etc. I literally can't criticize something so obvious like "Man, CNN really shouldn't have phrased things that way. Super weird" without getting jumped all over.
Jesus people. All I've ever said in this whole thread is "that wording is weird and disappointing" but suddenly now I'm being asked to defend claims of blackmail.
benicillin
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If he continues posting hateful images he continues the behavior that makes him a newsworthy individual now that he's an involuntary public figure, so yeah. It's not holding it hostage, it's saying "this information isn't worth publishing if you want to move on from the whole thing but if you continue putting yourself in the news we may write about it."
Finale Fireworker
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Has anyone seen this yet?
What do you even do at this point.
What do you even do at this point.
Stop letting the right position themselves as victims.
Vicetrailia
Member
This is the rights attempt to get CNN to suppress themselves due to bullshit backlash.
The real question is what happened to CNN's right to unlimited ❄🍑? Wow, it's almost as if the right are now realizing that using platforms with widespread national attention to direct targeted harassment is actually bad. All it took was CNN saying that they wouldn't do it to a racist who posted about how suspicious it is so many Jewish people work at CNN, among other hateful garbage.
Amusing how actually doxxing transgender people is very important free speech that should not be deplatformed, but saying that you could - but didn't - reveal the name of that guy who wants to kill all the Muslims is the line that's been drawn.
Amusing how actually doxxing transgender people is very important free speech that should not be deplatformed, but saying that you could - but didn't - reveal the name of that guy who wants to kill all the Muslims is the line that's been drawn.
Name and shame the newsworthy racist fucking garbage piles and don't let them get out of it by apologizing in the first place.