Re:CNN found the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF
by lr4444lr on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:14AM
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If I broke a rule, I apologize, flag away. The rest of your comment is an evasion of the issue, which is that their citation of his questionable but completely unrelated prejudiced posts are what would cause this individual to fear for his and his family's safety through his public identification, not his CNN GIF, when that is the only reason for their interest in him as a limited public figure.
EDIT - where is that rule posted about changing titles?
Re:CNN found the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF
by danso on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @03:53PM
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The rule is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important...Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
No. For starters, flagging is for breaking HN rules, not for disagreeing with the content.
But to the subject of the matter, CNN was interested in him after Trump, currently the President of the United States, tweeted it. If you read r/the_donald regularly, you'd see that everyday CNN-bashing memes are published without apparent care by CNN.
The rest of your comment is a word salad. But yes, you're right, this is all based "in THEIR account of events". But we have some reason to give them some benefit of the doubt. Because as far as we know, and at this point, CNN hasn't publicly identified the Redditor, even though they, or any news org or blogger, could do so given the Redditor's status as a limited-purpose public figure and the Redditor's own posts that apparently reveal his personal details.
Remember that CNN's purported war is not with Reddit trolls, it's with President Trump. And they'd get more play out of identifying the person and republishing all of his ostensibly racist and anti-Semite comment history and arguing that Trump was careless in using a meme from such an allegedly disreputable person.