The events leading to this online call to arms began Sunday morning, whenPresident Trump tweeted a gif created by Reddit user HanAssholeSolo depicting a scene from Wrestlemania XXIII in which Trump body slams and pummels WWE promoter Vince McMahon. In the gif, the CNN logo is superimposed over McMahons face. <\/p>\n
Auernheimer heralded the tweet as easily the greatest tweet in the history of Twitter. <\/p>\n
After scouring HanAssholeSolo'sReddit account, which contained scores of racist and xenophobic postings, CNNs KFile was able to track down the users Facebook page and contact him. <\/p>\n
Fearing public embarrassment and his safety, HanAssholeSolo published a lengthy apology on the Reddit group r\/theDonald, asking that CNN not publish his identity. (The apology has since been removed.) <\/p>\n
Alt-righter Jack Posobiec claims HanAssholeSolo is a 15 year-old LGBT person; however, CNN has identified the Reddit user as an adult male. (via Twitter) <\/p>\n
CNN obliged, on the condition that HanAssholeSoloremove his offending posts and cease his trolling, but that didnt stop the self-proclaimed real media at the Daily Stormer from issuing an ultimatum to every staffer at CNN. <\/p>\n
Just like CNN tracked down this child and used media exposure as a bludgeon against him for posting (truthful and funny) things that they dont like, we are going to begin tracking down their families as a bludgeon against them for publishing (seditiously fraudulent) things that we dont like, wrote Auernheimer. CNN, this is your one singular chance to walk back this behavior of public blackmail. You have one week to fix this. <\/p>\n
Auernheimers list of demands includes the public firing of the KFile team, a denouncement of their alleged threats, a $50,000 college scholarship for HanAssholeSolo, and a public assurance that he and his family will never be harmed by your organization. <\/p>\n
The only problem:HanAssholeSolo is an adult,according to CNN. <\/p>\n
Andrew Kaczynski, senor editor of CNN's KFile, Tweets that HanAssholeSolo is an adult, not a teenager, as some have claimed. (via Twitter) <\/p>\n
We are going to track down your parents. We are going to track down your siblings. We are going to track down your spouses. We are going to track down your children. Because hey, thats what you guys get to do, right? Were going to see how you like it when our reporters are hunting down your children, continued Auernheimer. <\/p>\n
Auernheimer instructed CNN employees that do not want to be doxed to quit within the week and denounce the organizations alleged blackmail. <\/p>\n
We didnt make these rules you did and now were going to force you to play by them. Hope you enjoy what is coming, you filthy rat kike bastards. Kill yourselves, kike news fakers. You deserve every single bit of what you are about to get, concluded Auernheimer. <\/p>\n
The call to \"kill the lying mass of shit that is CNN\" posted to 4chan's politically incorrect forum, \/pol\/. <\/p>\n
Within hours, personal information for multiple CNN staffers and their family members -- alongside images and gifs of individuals with CNN superimposed over their facesbeing shot in the head -- appeared in the comments of the posting. <\/p>\n
The incident is a rare moment of unity for the far-right with members of r\/theDonald, 4chan, the Daily Stormer, and the alt-lite banding together to attack CNN. <\/p>\n
The 4chan message board \/pol\/, which isdedicated topolitically incorrect discussion,dubbed the campaign Operation:Autism Storm and posted a four part plan of attack that includes banding together with other far right sites, going after CNNs advertisers, discrediting everyone at CNN, and forming a legal strategy for HanAssholeSolo should he later be doxed. <\/p>\n
At least nine separate hashtags trended across far-right accounts Tuesday evening including #cnnblackmail, #cnndoxing, and #fraudnewscnn as the controversy erupted. <\/p>\n
To people who troll on the Internet for fun, wrote HanAssholeSolo. Consider your words and actions conveyed in your message and who it might upset or anger. Put yourself in their shoes before you post it. If you have a problem with trolling it is an addiction just like any other addiction someone can have to something and dont be embarrassed to ask for help. <\/p>\n
The Daily Stormers veteran troll army hasnt heeded his advice. <\/p>\n
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