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Kaczynski, 28, is considered a rising star at CNN. He was hired away from Buzzfeed to help CNN conduct online investigations at which Kaczynski was good. But Buzzfeed’s culture is more Gawker than CNN, and Kaczynski apparently felt that in CNN’s anti-Trump environs, he had a target-rich environment where he could apply the same Buzzfeed-type standards.

Kaczynski dug up allegations of plagiarism against two potential Trump appointees, Monica Crowley and Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee. Both withdrew from consideration, with Clarke calling Kaczynski an “online terrorist” who distorted his graduate work.

Kaczynski stayed on Twitter after the story hit, suggesting the anonymous “middle-aged” man had posted anti-CNN pictures in the past, including one that listed all the Jews who worked at CNN. That much is true.

But why CNN would use its power to keep the man off Reddit appears to be a journalistic ethics violation that even members of the Left and the liberal media could not tolerate.

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German Lopez, a senior reporter at Vox, said CNN’s behavior was unethical.

“I can’t emphasize how bad this is on CNN’s part. This is basically ‘don’t post stuff we don’t like or we’ll dox you,'” Lopez tweeted. “Extremely unethical.”

Doxing is the public release of identifying information about an individual who intended to remain anonymous in a certain situation. The practice is considered unethical by most media outlets.

York said CNN had used its awesome media power to police speech.

“If you read the CNN article they posted late on Tuesday night — and it was a huge headline across their website — there was no doubt it was to them the most important story of the hour,” York said. “If you read that, there is this sense that CNN has taken this judicial role, this prosecutorial role, and they essentially made a plea bargain with the offending party here. And you have to remember his offense was making a video mocking CNN.”[lz_pagination]