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As America celebrated Independence Day, the Internet exploded following allegations that CNN threatened and coerced the Reddit user behind the popular Donald Trump/CNN Wrestling meme into silence for exercising his first amendment rights. In an article by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski, it is detailed how Reddit user HanA**holeSolo “apologized for calls for violence against the press,” took down all his social media posts, begged for his identity not to be released an promised he wouldn’t engage in any similar behavior. The article noted that CNN agreed not to release his name, but “reserves the right to publish his identity should any...

CNN, already down in the dumps about skewed coverage that led to the departure of three network news staffers, is now walking a Twitter hall of shame with a hashtag that showcases the company as less than honorable — as one and the same with, say, mobsters and the criminal underworld. #CNNBlackmail soared to the top of trending Twitter feeds in the United States, the somewhat predictable result of the company’s seeming foray into — well, blackmail. And of a private citizen, no less. Here’s what’s going on: Sunday, President Donald Trump linked a video in his tweet that showed...

CNN issued a statement denying that its reporters blackmailed a Reddit user involved in the making of a viral anti-CNN meme after massive social media backlash on Wednesday. In the statement, the news network pushes back on reports from Donald Trump Jr. and others claiming that it had "blackmailed" a 15-year-old Reddit user, saying in a statement that the user was an adult and that he had apologized before speaking with CNN. "CNN decided not to publish the name of the Reddit user out of concern for his safety," a CNN spokesman told The Hill. "Any assertion that the network...

CNN and @AnaCabrera are tripling down on threatening Reddit user!! Wow

According to Senator Ted Cruz, CNN’s threats to dox the Reddit user who created the Trump wrestling CNN video could be a violation of Georgia law. CNN discovered the identity of the Reddit user who made the video and essentially threatened to reveal his identity if he continued to post unsavory content. Cruz said if CNN tracked down the Reddit user through his IP address and then used that information to threaten him, they could be in violation of a Georgia law. CNN headquarters are located in Atlanta, GA. The GA Code explains that someone could be guilty of “Theft...

The same news outlet which often claims President Trump is a "thin-skinned" narcissist is now threatening to ruin the life of a private person who dared mock it with a Trump meme. In an appalling display of what's been labeled "thug journalism" and may even be blackmail, CNN sought retribution against the anonymous Internet user who created a video portraying Trump wrestling a figure whose head has been replaced by CNN's logo. The video went viral this week after Trump retweeted it and irked CNN, which stated that it "encourages violence against reporters." The video's alleged creator has since been...

As a teenager in Minneapolis in the early 1960s, back when local television stations broadcast live pro-wrestling matches, my pals and I would bicycle down to a local station that offered free tickets for a studio audience on its Saturday Night Wrestling show. Quite often, since it was free and something to do on a Saturday night. We were a bunch of cheeky smart alecks there to laugh at them. But we quickly got it that the rest of the audience and the wrestlers themselves got it, too. Everything was taking place with a giant wink. And that gave us...

Some classics already posted. The meme wars have begun! Note: This anti-CNN board was created by Redditors in response to the doxxing of HanA-HoleSolo who posted the Trump wrestling video last week. Trump tweeted it and Han claimed credit for creating it on Reddit. Both Reddit and CNN are owned by Time Warner.

Multi-billion dollar corporation CNN is Extorting a Private Citizen over a Joke Tweet! CNN reported Tuesday that they declined to publicly identify the Reddit user who created the Trump CNN wrestling video because he promised not to do it again.   CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski then went on to say, “CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.”That is extortion. They threatened to dox him. It turns out that CNN has targeted the wrong person! Analysis of the video shows evidence that the wrestling video President Trump posted to his Twitter account did not originate from this particular Reddit user.The Daily Wire...

Co-host of CNN’s “New Day” Chris Cuomo deleted a tweet Wednesday in which he proposed revealing the identity of the Reddit user who posted the CNN wrestling video of President Donald Trump. One Twitter user screen shot Cuomo’s tweet and criticized the co-host for trying to intimidate a teenager in order to suppress negative coverage of his home network. Why did @ChrisCuomo delete this tweet? Possibly because they found out it was 15 year old kid they are trying to extort. #CNNBlackmail pic.twitter.com/JfLWOI6bo4 — Mark M. (@mmontuori) July 5, 2017

Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz even suggested on Twitter that CNN could have a legal problem. “Troubling. I assume CNN's lawyers are examining GA § 16-8-16 Theft by extortion. If CNN constructively obtained the gif-maker's IP...it's a GA crime if they threatened to ‘Disseminate any information tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule....’” he wrote.

[Video from July 4th at link] "11m ago @JackPosobiec tweeted: 'CNN and the media are threatening privat..' - read what others are saying and join the conversation." TWITTER.COM

CRTV host Steve Deace thinks the #CNNBlackmail scandal may be even worse than you think. He lays out the case for CNN’s imminent demise in a gangbuster 42 tweet tweetstorm that is essential reading.

Aside from the fact the pundits at CNN continue to show their ignorance of the topic at hand, this time by mispronouncing the graphic in question (.gif) by using the hard "g", the whole thing about "artistic license" and "freedom of expression" has been conveniently forgotten because the left has once again revealed something we already know: they can destroy anyone THEY want, but THEIR skins are as thin as wet toilet paper.

On the evening of July 4th, CNN reportedly threatened a 15-year-old for originating the meme that was Tweeted out by President Trump earlier this week. This is a compilation of the memes that were tweeted out under the #1 trending hashtag #CNNBlackmail.