Joking with a couple of buddies is not the same as reaching a far wider audience on the Internet. You can presumably trust your buddies to keep your off-color jokes to themselves. The Internet is a public square. How many times have people been warned that anonymity on the Internet is a precarious thing? So he knew he was playing with fire. This self-named asshole, who also repeatedly posted racist commentary, is a middle aged guy who should have know better. And now he does. Dude.
Who's restricting the idiot's freedom? He can do and say as he pleases. No one will take legal action or restrict his "speech." He will simply get to own what he said. As it should be.
I know you're not so obtuse as to not realize the gravity of this threat which means you're just circling the wagons around your favorite news outlet. That's fine, everyone is entitled and we all must eventually choose a side in this battle for truth. All I know is when a multi-billion dollar corporation, one of the most powerful media outlets in the world, when that outfit decides to commit resources to take down and individual simply because they didn't like what he wrote on an internet message board, we should all take pause. Considering this is the same organization that has be shown time and again to be playing fast and loose with the facts, has lowered itself into engaging in some schoolyard pissing contest with the current administration, and now decides to crush a piss ant with a steamroller, that organization is a threat to everything it is supposed to be protecting. The media is given great power and a awesome responsibility through the 1st amendment. This organization, CNN, has abused this power time and again. The FCC should pull their license to broadcast. They are no longer rational enough conduct themselves in a professional manner.
By merely identifying him? After he had repeatedly posted racially motivated material about its own employees, and then a video that went viral and which sends the wrong message to everyone and especially the mentally vulnerable? Please don't go obtuse snowflake on me, Captain.
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