Posted on 07/04/2017 7:28:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
(CNN) The Reddit user who initially claimed credit for President Donald Trump's tweet that showed Trump tackling CNN issued an apology Tuesday for the video and other offensive content he posted -- one day after CNN identified the man behind the account and attempted to make contact with him.
Reddit user "HanA**holeSolo" first shared the GIF last Wednesday of Trump pummeling a wrestler with CNN's logo imposed on his face. CNN could find no earlier instance of the GIF. The GIF was later edited into a video with sound and tweeted by the President on Sunday. On Reddit, "HanA**holeSolo" took credit for inspiring the tweet. Soon after, "HanA**holeSolo's" other posts on Reddit, some of which included racist and anti-Semitic imagery, quickly circulated on social media.
Now the user is apologizing, writing in a lengthy post on Reddit that he does not advocate violence against the press and expressing remorse there and in an interview with CNN for other posts he made that were racist and anti-Semitic.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
They are on 4chan.
Info on all the CNN employees is popping up there — emails, phone numbers, home addresses. What a mess is headed their way!
4chan tracked down Shia Lebouf’s flag using airplane travel in some other country. Those folks are weaponized autism.
What a mess.
Btw, I would not share ‘screen shots’ or doxxing info here on FR as that’s a quick way to get banned from this site.
4chan is the free for all.
How can they be stopped?
Unbelievable! And they do this on our Independence Day!
poor guy. couldn’t take the heat.
On reddit? I’m not surprised. They probably laid into him and blew up his inbox.
Not only that, this is extortion by CNN. They are attempting to reveal his identity unless he apologizes and deletes his posts ( all of which he has a constitutional right to post ) Criminal charges should be brought.
Could you?
Look at what was happening already - CNN was calling him a racist, Nazi, etc. He would be facing death threats, loss of job and career, family members being threatened.
The ‘white hispanic’ Zimmerman treatment, basically.
Would you take that ‘heat’? What about for your wife, kids, or family members? Subject them to it?
He made a reasonable choice under blackmail conditions - threats of career destruction and violence.
>Not only did they find him but they THREATENED to release his name unless he apologized..Hitler tactics from the Communist News Network
They’ll still release it in a week or 2. That’s what they do.
This is a HUGE deal and mega huge deal for CNN to pull ... Uses over on reddit the Donald are furious over Doxing a user and then Blackmailing by threatening to release their name publicly
CNN just Pull off North Korea nuk type stunt It’s gonna blow-up app as big as a nuke in CNN face ...
Is that blackmail?
This is what I found at your link.
No idea, I’m no tech expert by any means...
Extortion and Blackmail
The_Donald sub is solidly behind HanA##holeSolo.
“Openly support the President of the United States and we will find you and ruin your life” - CNN manta.
The pedes are coming to closed u down by chasing your advertisers.
Coercion.
Julian Assange; @JulianAssange · 25m25 minutes ago
CNN just committed a crime violating § 135.60 of the New York criminal code “coercion” http://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-135-60.html
Man, I just read the CNN article. Holy Crap. It’s like a Viet Cong General getting a statement from a POW.
WTF is wrong with them?
So CNN is now trying to extort a private citizen.
Time for that private citizen to lawyer up and file a lawsuit.
They were thinking that they still had the power to grind people into powder. CNN still has not learned that we live in a whole new age of communications.
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