CNN reddit situation- Blackmailed user wrong person? BUZZFEED exposing CNN?!

[naruball]

eva01beserk said:

naruball said:

That's not promoting violence. Promoting violence would be the Cnn making a gif of the user, even if it's just his avatar, getting beat by another person. If that were to happen, you can call them hypocrites. What you're doing here is reaching.

To put it simply, what the redit user posted can possbly be considered insiting violence by a small amount of people, most people see it as a joke. What CNN did to threaten to dox him and actually put him in danger and his family is definetly considered violence by the majority, some countrys I belive even made it ilegal. So even if the gif was violence, cnn responded with even worse violence, does that make sense?

It does not.

1. Blackmailing is illegal and I'm all for CNN facing the reprecautions of their actions.

2. Also, I think what the poster made is just a funny gif and no legal action should be taken against him.

3. What Trump did is inexcusable, though I'm not sure if it's illegal.

Trump incited violence. Cnn did not. They, most likely, committed a crime and should be punished for it, but calling it "inciting violence" is wrong.