The process is the punishment. CNN decided to find out who made a video, to doxx him, and are now boasting about it.

CNN are using standover tactics. This is blackmail.

The Reddit user who initially claimed credit for President Donald Trump’s tweet that showed Trump tackling CNN issued an apology Tuesday for the video and other offensive content he posted — one day after CNN identified the man behind the account and attempted to make contact with him.

Reddit user “HanA**holeSolo” first shared the GIF last Wednesday of Trump pummeling a wrestler with CNN’s logo imposed on his face. CNN could find no earlier instance of the GIF. The GIF was later edited into a video with sound and tweeted by the President on Sunday.
On Reddit, “HanA**holeSolo” took credit for inspiring the tweet. Soon after, “HanA**holeSolo’s” other posts on Reddit, some of which included racist and anti-Semitic imagery, quickly circulated on social media.
Now the user is apologizing, writing in a lengthy post on Reddit that he does not advocate violence against the press and expressing remorse there and in an interview with CNN for other posts he made that were racist and anti-Semitic.

The man should be hired. The gif is funny, accurate, and a good troll. When you troll, you don’t apologise.

#FraudNewsCNN #FNN pic.twitter.com/WYUnHjjUjg

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2017

This has led to a new hashtag #CNNBlackmail.

And the generation of better gifs on Twitter.

There will now be more anti-CNN memes than ever before. Thank you, @CNN#CNNBlackmail pic.twitter.com/WVScWZVPe4

— Caligula Casanova (@FallenCasanova) July 5, 2017

Cut the cord on cable. Boycott their advertisers. Link to archives, not the media websites. Deny them traffic. Starve the beast.

UPDATE

UPDATE.

The channers have declared war on CNN.

8chan has a antiDoxxing thread up… as the commentators note if CNN wants to go into meatspace, the chans will go into measpe and protest… this is from their thread.

I should add that within an hour they had the street addresses of most of the CNN reporters who were blackmailing. And the meme generation then started.

UPDATE
On gab

Via Vox Day, a list of CNN advertisers.

UPDATE

Gab also has declared war on CNN, and orders the memes to flow. This has more traffic now.

This has made the morning papers, with a spin that CNN did nothing because they got an apology.

#CNNBlackmail was the top trending Twitter topic Wednesday morning, thanks to the efforts of a furious Trump internet, which had concluded that the user’s apology was forced by a “threat” from CNN. Their evidence? A story CNN itself published, detailing its attempts to contact and identify the anonymous Reddit user ahead of their apology, whose offensive posting history suddenly became part of a national news story.

The part of the article that infuriated the Trump internet – and people on both sides of the political spectrum, who questioned the ethical standards of the network’s decision – had to do with how CNN described its reasoning for not identifying the Redditor by name. Reporter Andrew Kaczynski wrote that CNN had spoken with the person behind the account, and would not identify the user because “he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology,” who had promised not to continue flooding the internet with offensive memes.

But, he wrote, “CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.”

Like many online controversies of this era, it’s difficult to explain exactly what’s going on here in one smooth narrative. The ethical question of whether a news outlet should withhold the identity of a private citizen who posted extremely offensive things online on the apparent condition that they behave better in the future is one that resonated well beyond the bubble of the Trump internet. But the meme that Trump supporters have picked up and spread is a mix of fact and fiction, of genuinely outraged conservatives and the gleeful meme-literate arsonists who just like to see the internet burn with fury.