If a media organization uses legal means to reveal the identity of a person involved in a legitimate news story, they are free to do so.
BTW-There is no privacy on the internet.
There is a First Amendment.
Timpana’s?.....Someone from Utah. Maybe Provo? Heber City? American Fork? Salt Lake City?
1st A.
Means I can say “Shut your F’in pie hole troll”
It sounds like you approve of what CNN did to this kid.
What CNN did was blackmail or at minimum coercion under duress.
Both are crimes that don’t involve the 1st Amendment.
OK-conceding, for the sake of argument, that CNN can do this. How far do they get to go with threatening private citizens’ anonymity for posting things on the internet which CNN doesn’t like? Do they get to do this to every private citizen who posts something they don’t like, if in theory they wanted to use time and resources to do that? Won’t that have a chilling effect, to say the least, on free speech? I’m only talking about private citizens here, who mostly won’t have the resources and connections to fight such a huge entity as CNN. So in effect, CNN would control speech.