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CNN's Powers on meme controversy: 'People do not have the right to stay anonymous'
The Hill ^ | July 6, 2017 | Joe Concha

Posted on 07/07/2017 2:04:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

CNN political analyst Kirsten Powers is hitting back at critics of her network's decision to warn an anonymous Reddit user he could be exposed if he resorted to "ugly behavior" on the internet again.

"People do not have a right to stay anonymous so they can spew their racist, misogynist, homophobic garbage," she argued in a series of tweets to her nearly 250,000 followers on Thursday.....

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; childabuse; cnn; fakenews; fascism; media; reddit; trump
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To: Billthedrill

CNN wants it to be easier to hunt down people who criticize them.


61 posted on 07/07/2017 2:41:17 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The hole they are digging gets deeper...


62 posted on 07/07/2017 2:42:45 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Malone LaVeigh

According to her its just the little people who don’t have the right to rmain anonymous.

Liberal reporters are part of the new nobility /s


63 posted on 07/07/2017 2:43:46 PM PDT by crusher2013
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
People do not have a right to stay anonymous

Except when CNN uses unnamed sources!

What a crock!!!!

64 posted on 07/07/2017 2:44:29 PM PDT by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Corleone News Network at it again!!

Dear Kirsten: You can threaten all you want, as you are a CNN fake news hired thug. Just remember CNN is now just as corrupt as a sleazy New Jersey crime family.

What you can’t do by threats and thuggery is gain back trust and respect as a legitimate news organization. It will take many years, perhaps decades, before CNN can gain back a good reputation—if that’s even possible.

CNN reminds me of Dan Rather and his “fake but accurate” documents: “The stupid, it burns.”


65 posted on 07/07/2017 2:45:01 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“so they can spew their racist, misogynist, homophobic garbage”

Does anyone know whether the individual Powers is threatening has actually posted statements a normal person would consider racist, misogynist, or homophobic, or is CNN lying again?


66 posted on 07/07/2017 2:45:23 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: keat

That has to be one of the best all out dives in the movies.


67 posted on 07/07/2017 2:46:09 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Chewbarkah

And what if he did? Does that strip him of his rights?


68 posted on 07/07/2017 2:47:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m delighted to see CNN double-down.

It is their biggest mistake to-date, and they want to continue to dig their hole.


69 posted on 07/07/2017 2:49:00 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thus CNN is the first newspaper organization to let whistler blowers and leakers know they will be outted.


70 posted on 07/07/2017 2:52:36 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: atc23
Who is skankier Kirsten Powers or that nasty woman that slept with Jesse Jackson. I forgot her name but she was a regular on Hannity a while back. I googled it. Tamara Holder.

or

Both of them are flaming liberals.

71 posted on 07/07/2017 2:54:58 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: eyeamok

But it is laudable and prudent to post anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-male, anti-traditional-values screeds under a pseudonym, because those people are oppressors and pose a real threat to anyone who criticizes them.


72 posted on 07/07/2017 2:58:40 PM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

CNN is built on anonymous sources.


73 posted on 07/07/2017 3:03:33 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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neither do the scumbags that work at cnn...
74 posted on 07/07/2017 3:05:49 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he is a minor, he certainly does. He could OWN CNN if they revealed his identity without his permission under various civil rights laws.

There does seem to be a question as to who the original meme creator was. One meme was apparently uploaded by a 15-year old. But, Trump actually retweeted a meme created or modified by someone else.


75 posted on 07/07/2017 3:06:20 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Blue Highway

Both of them are also flaming hate-filled skanks.


76 posted on 07/07/2017 3:06:34 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Kudsman

Dozed is good, too.


77 posted on 07/07/2017 3:13:21 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fine, then CNN should never again claim anonymous sources.


78 posted on 07/07/2017 3:23:56 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Cboldt

“Not to say there is some sort of “right to anonymity,”

Sure there is. The rigbt to anonymity is in the Constitution eminating into the penumbra of the right to privacy.


79 posted on 07/07/2017 3:28:53 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There’s a of CNNISTER people on that network.


80 posted on 07/07/2017 3:40:22 PM PDT by RetSignman
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