Random Politics & Religion #25

May? Try "did"

It doesn't matter, over 40 states have already said they wouldn't be sharing some, or any, of the information requested. All of them have said there would be no SSN's shared. Its a dumb idea from a dumb commission.

Voter fraud commission did have violated law

Looks stupid, you're stupid.

Bravo, Oklahoman.

Bravo.

Imho. I believe this where the narrative is misleading. Especially since that's the one coming from everybody but the actual parties involved.

Sometimes I wonder if people are being obtuse when they ask "why was the media even looking this person up?". Like, as if the President of the United States using content someone created isn't noteworthy and newsworthy in of itself. Suddenly the PoTUS acknowledging you or your work is not a big deal?

It in itself is a story.

Seems like:

They connected the dots of his Reddit post history with cross referenced Facebook searches, got a strong lead and called to verify.

Turns out person trolls for the sake of trolling and had a "oh ***, if people find out I've posted some fairly reprehensible and offensive things about minority's as an anonymous online persona, I'm going to have trouble" moment.

That's based off their own words in their apology statement with the cliche line "I'm not really a bigoted racist in real life I have gay, Jewish and black friends" line.

He made an apology statement then contacted CNN to follow up their request about an interview and confirmed their identity. CNN's statement was basically since this person took the initiative and showed remorsefulness and expressed that they would not reveal their identity. But hey trolls are going to troll and if it's all a front we'll publish your name in the story.

Meanwhile over in 4Chans /pol/ politically incorrect somebody posted his profile because Facebook is totally in the public arena.

I think the main takeaway here is that the media doesn't operate like an Internet forum and is not interested in protecting your anonymity because it's not illegal nor impacting their operations.

How could they do it so quickly though?

Going to be interesting when ISPs get to start selling our information to highest bidders.

Also this is by far the best trump/cnn meme of the last 24 hours.

It's ridiculous that anyone felt the need to track down the person in the first place. He guy didn't do anything special. He was just another anonymous internet user employing crappy gifs to be funny, except he just happened to hit the presidential Twitter lottery. But hey, let's make sure he apologizes for insulting our laughing stock of a "news" agency. There's no way that can backfire, such as causing the internet to explode with anti-CNN memes.

They wanted to interview the guy responsible for the content of Trump's tweet. This isn't hard.

That's some pretty hard denial you've got going there.

Not really.

You're going to give them an envious complex.

This isn't even semi erect.

That's all he has anymore.

He is in denial of the election results, and still thinks Queen Hillary won. He is just waiting for his invitation to the coordination.

He even has the gown picked out and everything.

Best article I have found about the whole HanA**holeSolo - CNN bit:

Now involving Reddit and neo-Nazis, the spiraling Trump-CNN feud is 2017 in a nutshell
L. A. Times

Has the whole timeline but it ain't in a nutshell, a fairly long read actually.

The and you thought our politics were nasty department:

Militias Storm Venezuela Congress, Beat Lawmakers
At least 4 opposition politicians were injured

I'm somewhat torn on the Venezuelan protests. Obviously violence is not to be encouraged (generally speaking), but these aren't snowflake protesters who can't mentally handle the natural swing of the political pendulum. These are people who live in very desperate circumstances and whose constitutional republic is creeping ever closer to dictatorship. People can only take so much before revolution breaks out....

/incoming deniers proclaiming that saying to never existed.

They already a dictatorship. Just a costume of Democracy now.

I'm only wondering how they found the person to begin with. That leaves these questions.

1.) Did a Reddit moderator fork over the person's IP address?
2.) Why did CNN go out of their way to get this IP address?
3.) How did they track the IP address? There's a lot implications to this one. (Time Warner is an ISP, and they just so happen to be CNN's parent company. They could have traced the person's IP address if they were that person's ISP.)

Read it.

..err, mom.

They stalked him on the internet. It's really easy to track down people's real identity if they participate in social media and anonymous message boards using the same email address. Goes double if you can get a SJW with elevated access rights involved.

Personally I think all trolls should be doxed.

Not just this particular asshat, but every last one of them.

They thrive on anonymity. This asshat is a perfe4ct example. Once he figured out that he might be doxed, he folded, profusely apologized, and THEN contacted CNN to grovel.

That kind of thinking is dangerous Chanti.

Who's to say who is a troll or not?

Because, this can be politicized quicker than you can say "internet freedom"

Would you like your personal information released by Lordgrim, Altimaomega, or the worst of them all, Kojo?

Wait... Alti and I have a common bond about cows.

LG and I amn't even on a common wavelength.

And I have nothing to fear from the new earthquake capitol of the nation.

Point is, there's absolutely no stopping people from "doxing" each other because they don't agree on anything.

Which is basically what CNN did to this guy.

They coerced him to silence after publicly apologizing for having a viewpoint that CNN didn't like. All over a silly meme.

CNN really needs to be slapped down on this behavior. If they get away with it (bad publicity is not enough in this case), what's to stop them from doing it to the next person?