CNN Employee Info Leak ! (Payback time !)

[givingtnt]

 

So a few days ago the CNN was made fun of with a meme of trump attacking a wrestler woth the cnn logo on it, on reddit, CNN threatened and blackmailed the user and had its account removed.

 

Today, cnn employees are panicking, following death and rape threats after their home adress had been leaked.

 

Source :

http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/05/cnn-staff-reeling-after-personal-info-leaked/

 

Quote :

“Frustrated by our critics’ double standards,” a CNN insider said on condition of anonymity. “Frustrated that CNN staffers’ private information is being published in ‘retaliation’ — when the network made the decision to not out the Reddit user. Frustrated by the speed in which misinformation, lies and hate spreads. Frustrated that POTUS’s son has no accountability.”

 

Spoiler

 

 

[plsno]

Sucks it's happening to them, but what else did they expect to happen after threatening the guy? 

[paradigm249]

never mess with a guy who lives in his mom's basement

[lonely_sata_cable]

4 minutes ago, noobadin said:

Sucks it's happening to them, but what else did they expect to happen after threatening the guy? 

True true

[Metal_Kitty]

after threatening a 15 Y/O to be precise

EDIT: Article was misleading on the information when I read it - not a 15 Y/O

[JoeCoke]

" when the network made the decision to not out the Reddit user "

 

Yeah, no, they said they'd do it if "anything changed". That is blackmail, no getting around it.

[Urishima]

Right or wrong, this is why you don't piss of 4chan. Weaponized autism can't be beat.

 

This isn't victim blaming, this is the equivalent of telling someone not stick their had into a ravenous bear's mouth, or more accurately telling someone to stay out of a place called 'murder alley' after sundown.

 

No, it isn't your fault that you've got a knife stuck between your ribs, but you easily could've prevented this.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Metal_Kitty said:

after threatening a 15 Y/O to be precise

Read the article, it was a 30+ male (living in his moms basement perhaps?)

[ChickenCake248]

I wouldn't call it "payback" their employees are not the company itself. They didn't make these decisions yet they are the ones suffering.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, ChickenCake248 said:

I wouldn't call it "payback" their employees are not the company itself. They didn't make these decisions yet they are the ones suffering.

To me it seems the article implies that it's the CNN employees involved in the blackmailing. 

[Notional]

Karma is a bitch. CNN can suck it. This is what happens when they use all the dirty tactics they accuse others of using, themselves. Lying, blackmailing (coercing), spreading fake news, shitting on journalistic integrity (#nothingburger), and then claiming victim status under journalistic rights, when people are fed up and push back. This is GamerGate all over again, but with the mainstream general media instead of gamer focused media. 

 

Get rekt CNN.

[PCGuy_5960]

Karma

[migeo]

15 minutes ago, Metal_Kitty said:

after threatening a 15 Y/O to be precise

 

Actually he's not a fifteen y/o. He's a grown up man with a family. Watch the philip defranco vid on it.

[migeo]

13 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Read the article, it was a 30+ male (living in his moms basement perhaps?)

He has a family. He's a married man.

[Guest]

Karma or no karma... Rape/death threats and all those kind of things should be handled. Go to court or something. Let internal security find them people. Oh wait, trumpet would not like that...

[RadiatingLight]

35 minutes ago, givingtnt said:

Frustrated that POTUS’s son has no accountability.”

Wait what?

was he supposed to?

how was he even involved in this at all?

[SpaceGhostC2C]

I'm like two news behind this, it seems: are you telling me CNN actually bothered to do something against some guy posting an animated gif somewhere?

I mean, is the internet's infrastructure capable of handling the traffic that would result of everyone filing complaints every time there is any trade mark in a meme, gif, or other troll material?

 

Also, what was CNN's goal with it? The '90s called, they want their lessons back...

Spoiler

 

PS: sorry, I know that the thread is about the leak of CNN's staff data, but as I said, the "prequel" is still sinking in for me...  

[Trixanity]

6 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Wait what?

was he supposed to?

how was he even involved in this at all?

Tweeted about the incident. Something about them targeting a kid. It wasn't a kid though. That's why they talk about misinformation. Fact is: they threatened to doxx a man. They still try to claim they didn't do that. 

[Misanthrope]

A.K.A. "Frustrated that we as a major news network cannot win a fucking Reddit war and we're being handed our asses by some MAGA kids"

[Unhelpful]

35 minutes ago, Urishima said:

Weaponized autism can't be beat.

That is one of my new favorite phrases.

[ChineseChef]

6 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Wait what?

was he supposed to?

how was he even involved in this at all?

He Tweeted out the 4chan rumor that the person was only 15.  Which is incorrect, and it fanned the flames of hate for CNN.

 

Personally, I don't understand what CNN thought would happen.  Trump was massively helped by internet hate and trolling.  CNN went after someone for making a funny meme gif.  They went after internet trolls.  They stuck their dick in a hornets nest, now they are mad they are getting stung?

I understand the employees often don't have much say, and are usually just collateral damage.  But when will these companies learn you can't beat these people.  This guy was afraid of his info getting out.  But what about the next person?  What about if it really was a kid?  What if the next person is proud of what they did?

This whole thing blew up way bigger than the original.  Now making CNN memes is the new fad.  If they had just ignored it, it would have come and gone and barely anyone would remember it now.  How do these people and organizations still not understand how the internet works?  How unruly people get more riled up when you tell them they can't/shouldn't do something? 

 

I just don't understand how this keeps happening over and over and over and over.  I would say maybe they wanted the publicity, but the problem is they are the only ones that really lose out here.  They aren't getting much effective sympathy for all the renewed hate/vigor. 

[ravenshrike]

The fact of the matter is the apology was entirely too detailed which means the email they sent to HanAssholeSolo involved significantly more detail than simply "Hey this is CNN we want to talk to you". They could quell the majority of the blackmail rumors by releasing it otherwise.

[ChineseChef]

6 minutes ago, ravenshrike said:

The fact of the matter is the apology was entirely too detailed which means the email they sent to HanAssholeSolo involved significantly more detail than simply "Hey this is CNN we want to talk to you". They could quell the majority of the blackmail rumors by releasing it otherwise.

Agreed.  Plus from what this guy wrote in the past, he doesn't sound like someone who would just volunteer an apology. 

[Prysin]

58 minutes ago, noobadin said:

Sucks it's happening to them, but what else did they expect to happen after threatening the guy? 

Sadly, they did not just threaten A man, they threatened the concept of the internet. If they had "won", they would have set a precedence for other news outlets, politicians and possibly even court cases, to allow for widespread oppression of peoples right to free speech

[Kobathor]

I think that it's terrible for those employees, but.. What did they expect? CNN blackmailed a guy to post his name if he didn't conform to their apology threat, then they didn't apologize when the internet shitstorm erupted. I think they should have fired the guy that wrote that article, and fired the people that threatened to post his name online. I think that if they had just posted it without the threat, this still would have happened. It would have been a "hit piece" on the guy instead of a threat.

 

They guy that wrote the article claimed that the stupid wrestling meme opened their employees to personal threats. The meme definitely didn't do that. But the threat to the guy that posted it? That was a mistake that will probably have people quitting their jobs for fear of dying to internet trolls. I hope that writer feels the burden of every person he has put in danger.

3 minutes ago, Prysin said:

Sadly, they did not just threaten A man, they threatened the concept of the internet. If they had "won", they would have set a precedence for other news outlets, politicians and possibly even court cases, to allow for widespread oppression of peoples right to free speech

You and I both know this was a losing fight for CNN. The internet is way too passionate about free speech and anonymity. I honestly can't see a scenario where CNN would have been unaffected, except the scenario where they never posted the article in the first place.

 

P.S. Threaten to dox a guy? Get doxxed to high hell. I hope this teaches the MSM that they can't do whatever they want without consequences.