Zach,that's a load a horse crap and you should know better. Anybody can look up the Georgia Code and see that "theft by extortion" requires a THEFT to constitute a crime:

O.C.G.A. 16-8-16 Theft by extortion
(a) A person commits the offense of theft by extortion when he unlawfully obtains property of or from another person by threatening to:
[. . .]
(3) Disseminate any information tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule or to impair his credit or business repute;

Anytime someone becomes famous their identity is subject to being discovered. This is modernity. You cant hide behind vicious hate on social media and expect to stay hidden forever.

Take Banksy for example. Certainly not a racist. But recently bbc released info on his real identity that was found through data mining and cell records. Nobody is a secret in our world for long. Banksy is a victim. This wrestler racist guy is not. If you wanna chastise a media outlet for uneccessary outing of peoples info start with a guy like banksy.

"And we value racists opinion because...."

Because these sorts of actions will lead people to see him as a victim because the original came from a stupid fucking gif. And if he's seen as a victim, some people will see his opinions as more valid. It's martyrdom. It spreads.

"Anytime someone becomes famous their identity is subject to being discovered"

And if CNN hadn't decided to actively use resources to discover someone's identity then they wouldn't have found this guy and brought him and his opinions to light.

an attempt at a radical purification of politics through the killing of enemies. or as the bomb wants, just string them up and hang them high and hope clint eastwood isn't the guy

So you prefer to sweep racism under the rug? Why is is bad his opinions were brought to light?

I'm glad it came to the light and he was worried to protect his identity so that people didn't know who said all those terrible things.

I don't really think CNN is out of bounds for investigating the origin of a tweet the President sent out.

Right... so publicly shaming racists for hiding behind internet troll memes is equivalent to mass slaughter.

Hi Prado. If you hadnt noticed the 24 hoir news cycle has a lot of time on their hands. Do you feel Brock Turner was umfairly shamed by the media too? And because of his rape being exposed - it will create more rapes and more rapist sympathizers?

And as I said if they'd discovered the account and the content of it and said, "This video is based on a gif created by a racist Reditter," I would have 0 problem with it.

So your problem is that they made him apologize?

"Do you feel Brock Turner was umfairly shamed by the media too?"

No and I think comparing shaming a rapist that didn't receive the justice he deserved for his act to threatening to this situation is pretty disgusting.

You have to admit social media and the media in general have made that guy their goto example of why the justice system is flawed - why cops are killing blacks but inadequate justice on rich white kid.

Its absolutely comparable. He may have remorse who knows. He will jever escape what hes done and will never be viewed favorably in society. Same with the dude who killed trayvon, or pretty much anyone whos been run through.

Shit look at what the GOP did to a war hero in the 2004 election. They literally flipped the script on a guy who went to vietnam vs a guy who dodged the war entirely. This is not new. The media has been targeting individuals for forever.

Tracking down someone on Reddit, discovering his personal info, and threatening to release it if he doesn't apologize and continues to post certain things is NOT comparable to shaming a rapist who received inadequate punishment from the justice system.

Threatening him doesn't suddenly make him not a racist. It just makes him a private racist who will spread a tale of martyrdom secretly. Which will spread sympathizers to racism.

Lol. So your solution to racism and hate speech is not to pay attention to it and it will go away.

There are a large number of Americans who are fed up with the corporate media. You must toe the line of the government's pro Israel policies. If you breath any opposition on social media to the concentration camp it runs in Gaza strip, the CNNs of this world attack you as anti-semite. Look at what they are doing to Julian Assange now . . . groundless child molestation accusations continue. This WWE guy might be a racist troll, but you're setting a precedent of what you encourate the corporate media can do to a person who espouses public opposition to CNN. Yeah, I disagree with your argument in favor of unleashing the corporate media into a campaign of public shaming against whatever individual they deem to have wandered outside the lines of acceptable speech.

If you dont wanna get called out - dislike call out call out culture. Heres a solution.

Dont do fucked up shit.

The problem is that you get called out for doing fucked up shit when you didn't do any fucked up shit. Jullian Assange.

Remember when people were going around punching kkk and neo nazis in the face? And fox news was trying to out who those ppl were? And the repubkican agenda was not worried about freedom of speech then or protecting the attackers...

You see a hipocrisy here?

If you fight harder for a guys right to privacy that actively wamts violence against cnn reporters but think the guys punching neo nazis need to be shamed - outed - and prosecuted.

You are just a fucked up persom

"Lol. So your solution to racism and hate speech is not to pay attention to it and it will go away."

Personal threats and making martyrs out of racists is an even worse solution.

"You see a hipocrisy here?"

Of course there is. Though I will point out that HanAssholeSolo's disgusting behavior isn't technically criminal but assault is.

The gif was a fucking metaphor. Do you think it was seriously advocating violence?

The person said he was never threatened.

Why are you bringing up assault? And hate speech is criminal behavior.

Threatening violence against anyone online is still a felony. Its terroristic threats

"Hate speech" is not criminal in the US, by any measure.

TrPrado, better secretly than in the open and unopposed

Racism will disappear when it becomes comprehensively socially unacceptable. And the only way to do that is to denounce it when it happens. If there are consequences that sends a stronger message. Sure, some sickos will see this guy as a "martyr" but the only ones who would were racists to begin with.

The best argument for not coming down on him hard is that he has reportedly apologized, and if that's true and sincere should be applauded

"Why are you bringing up assault?"
I was addressing brain's comparison.

"And hate speech is criminal behavior."
According to whom?

Holy shit, are people here really trying to spin a fucking meme of Trump metaphorically body slamming CNN as incitement of violence?

Bring on the fucking nukes. This planet is doomed.

Ogion:

Racism doesn't spread out in the open.