If he was publicly outed in such a huge way, that would essentially doom him to poverty, which is not that terribly different from just throwing him in jail. He'd never be employed again. You could argue that's essentially sentencing him to death, just from lack of food and shelter rather than from the electric chair.

Okay, but posting racist shit is not a crime. Contemptible, sure. But not a crime. And it's incredibly dangerous to treat it as such, especially when we have to KNOW by now that the right will gleefully adopt these sorts of tactics and use them on us. Believe me, Breitbart will happily ruin some random left-leaning…

He…posted dumber shit? Yeah he's racist whereas people here are just dumb sometimes, so what? The principle is still the same. It's not a crime. It's fairly harmless to anyone with enough sense to stay out of the darker corners of Reddit dot com. Trump is literally bombing places and trying to rip healthcare away from…

I didn't say he has the legal right or that CNN doesn't have the legal right to out him. I've noted that already. I'm saying that I don't care, because I think in principle major news networks shouldn't be targeting relatively powerless and harmless people like this, especially when doing so is counterproductive (what…

The fact that the president tweeted the thing is newsworthy. Which random person on Reddit made it is not. Do you see the difference here?

I agree with that, but CNN decided to make the maker into a story by tracking him down and issuing statements about him where they are supposedly "taking the high road" by choosing not to out him for now. If they focused on the fact that the president of the United States tweeted a racist or violent meme I would be…

Sure, but he basically just posted dumb shit online. If I somehow found myself in the same internet forum as him I'm sure I'd call him every obscenity I could name and argue with him. He's not a good person. But he didn't commit a crime. Speeding is a crime. It literally kills people. To analogize being a troll with…

But being a racist troll is not a crime. I'm not interested in defending this guy's behavior as some sort of principle. He's an asshole. I'm Jewish, he's posted awful hateful things about Jews, let alone all the other indefensible things.

True although I mean in fairness, that is nothing new. CNN has always been trash, or at least going back to the "Baby Jessica" story in the 80s that greatly influenced their sensationalistic approach since. (And yes, Fox is worse, although Fox owes a lot to the mindless template CNN laid out.) I do think Zucker is…

Speeding is a crime. Making a parody GIF is not.

Please, explain to me how "if you continue to do this thing we don't like, we will release personal information about you" isn't a threat. I'm all ears. Any reasonable person would read it that way, regardless of what this guy did prior to that threat being made.

CNN are the ones saying that if he continues to post materials they find offensive, they might "do so" (release the info) anyway, not me. If that isn't a threat I don't know what is. I am not making a legal argument, I'm sure in our warped system where corporations have so many extra rights there is nothing criminal…

I'm sure they had the legal right. I don't care. They are openly threatening that if he continues to post memes and gifs (heaven forfend!) they will out him and ruin his life. I'm not interesting in defending a racist idiot's behavior, but the idea that cable networks should be in the business of ruining random…

Okay, but

Scott Pilgrim is easily the best 2000s/2010s comic book film.

All big blockbuster films are made to sell merchandise and otherwise be big commercial successes at the end of the day, Star Wars included, but I don't know if that's directly comparable. The idea behind Star Wars merchandising, at its core, is to sell stuff based off the actual strength of the movie; that people will…

I recently saw Always and to be honest I didn't think it was as bad as advertised. I mean, it is easily one of his most forgettable films for sure, but it's at least competent and decent enough. Its biggest problem was that it just didn't leave much of an impact on me, whereas Hook actually makes me cringe.

Additionally, she's already presumably very wealthy so if she just wanted to keep making music and making no money on it while living off what she already has, she could. More power to her I suppose.

Yeah, in fact it's weird how some of his very best scores (Temple of Doom, The Phantom Menace, Hook) are found in otherwise pretty crummy movies. Dude's just that good, I guess.

Well, let's bear in mind what the accusation is as far as what they've done. (Bearing in mind that it's also alleged and not proven at this point, though I don't doubt they at least made some attempts at what they're being accused of.) In America, the "tampering" mainly consists of hacking a political party's emails…