CNN's Powers on meme controversy: 'People do not have the right to stay anonymous'

The Hill ^ | July 6, 2017 | Joe Concha

[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.....

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Billthedrill]

Uh huh. And who, exactly, elected Powers to be the arbiter of people’s rights?

[4yearlurker]

Kristen must mean people like "unnamed sources."

[Jim W N]

Stupid woman.

[RoadGumby]

So why are they upset at the lack of personal anonymity for their journalists? They are people too, are they not?

[RoadGumby]

So why are they upset at the lack of personal anonymity for their journalists? They are people too, are they not?

[WKUHilltopper]

FUCNN...you don’t have the right to think that.

[Maceman]

I guess CNN gets to decide what our rights are now.

Tell it to James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, who wrote the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym “Publius.”

[SparkyBass]

[Sergio]

My thoughts exactly. And they don’t even see the irony in what they say.

[Kudsman]

Right. So how about Powers gets dozed? She can go first.

[keat]

[TBP]

Actually, Kirsten, they do.

[SkyDancer]

So, CNN is totally ignoring the Constitution. Well I guess since they figure they’re not the government and can do what they want outside the law and Constitution. What will CNN do when they’re no longer in the news business? If they went on to write tide tables I wouldn’t believe them.

[Kudsman]

Make that doxed.

[Cboldt]

See List of anonymously published works - Wikipedia.

Not to say there is some sort of "right to anonymity," just that those who claim a right to pierce it are going to be judged, regardless.

[Nextrush]

They want to intimidate and silence critics in the Nazi Brownshirt tradition reinvented on steroids in the high tech social media world we live in.

[Malone LaVeigh]

I guess CNN won’t be utilizing and quoting any anonymous news sources in the future.

[Ken H]

That would make for a great parody of Miller Lite ads.

“FAKE NEWS!”

“REAL THREATS!”

[Hugin]

So Kirsten Powers would have no problem with someone publishing her home address?