reddit co-founder alexis ohanian joined us. alexis: reddit has been fighting for the open internet.is something that steve and i believe in deeply. that is what gave us the chance to start reddit in a little apartment with $12,000 in the bank. 12 years later, to build something that is the fourth most trafficked site a minute . net neutrality made that possible. emily: the site costar can you have a message there. other companies are telling users to take action. google for example, saying today's open internet and chores that both new and established services, whether offered up by a broadband provider, google, or a startup, have the ability to reach users on an equal playing field. alexis: it's been great to see more and more companies come and join our ranks. a lot of people remember the internet blackout that happened because sites like reddit and wikipedia where protesting. they were protesting and the push to get title ii. those happened because platforms and consumers basically had their voices heard, made phone calls. it seems very and acronyms chronistic but call up your se

why is the reddit moderator taking it down?oss they're taking this down. >> you don't think it's out of convenience he's apologizing? >> i don't care. the words are nice to hear and it would be nice to have the white house say they understand there are consequences to showing violent satire. >> words matter. >> saying fake news or -- this isn't just trolling is what i'm saying and i think you have to be quick to forgive somebody who's coming forward out of convenience because they're worried about being exposed. don't forget, there's a trade. i'm going to be apologetic, don't expose me. >> the statement is worth crediting. >> and also i'm encouraging this tone. i want to encourage the tone. if you do something wrong, it's okay to apologize after doing something that was repugnant publicly. >> i just don't think you're a bigot by mistake. >> on that note, chris and i have talked a lot so you guys didn't get a chance to. thank you very much, bill and chris. >>> president trump is on his way to europe. this is his second overseas

reddit co-founder alexis ohanian, always good to have you on the show.eutrality issue is also being discussed today at the annual conference in sun valley, idaho. verizon'song, ceo of internet media business, gave us his take. tim: i think there's a lot of energy around making net neutrality work. when you soon into verizon, we have put out -- you zoom into verizon, we have put out a clear statement. verizon supports net neutrality. let congress pass real laws around it and cement it. today is a great day of action that has been organized. all those things are really positive. emily: coming up, some major newstors, including the england patriots owner. we will hear from bobby kotick next. is liferg technology" streaming on twitter. check us out weekdays at 5:00 p.m. in new york, 2:00 p.m. in san francisco. this is bloomberg. ♪ azor is shooting for a hong kong ipo that could value the gaming here maker at as much as -- gaming gearmaker at as much as $5 billion. the company sells its products via e-commerce giants and in chains like best buy across the u.s

joining us now to discuss, reddit co-founder alexis thosen, reddit is among organizations protestinghe rollback of the net neutrality. why join in on this protest? alexis: reddit has always been at the forefront of fighting for an open internet. this is something we believe in personally deeply. that is working with the chance apartmenteddit in with $12,000 in the bank. net neutrality made that possible. emily: you guys go big on your homepage, the site goes dark, you have a message. other companies are telling users to take action. google, for example, saying today's open internet ensures that both new and established internet whether a company like google, or a small startup has the ability to reach users on in equal playing field. do you think this protest will make a difference? alexis: yes. because it has been great to see more and more companies come to join our ranks. a lot of folks remember the internet blackout that happened, sites like reddit and wikipedia protesting sopa-pipa. those happened because platforms and consumers basically had their voices heard, made phone calls

this showed up on a reddit message board days ago. now it's showing up on the president of the united states' own twitter feed. the early reaction in the last 90 minutes have ranged from this is juvenile, ridiculous, idiotic, or wait no it's just funny. he's just having fun. wait, no it's actually scary, dangerous. we've heard a wide range of reactions to this. and we have a panel standing by. but first cnn's response. the strongest statement i've seen from cnn or any news outlet this year in response to the president's attacks. quote it is a sad day when the president of the united states encourages violence against reporters. cleary sarah huckabee sanders lied when she said the president had never done so. instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meeting with vladimir putin, north korea and working on the health care bill he is involved in juvenile behavior far below the dignity of his office. the statement from cnn saying we will keep doing our jobs. he should start doing his. and this is day six of trump's anti-media

emily: that was the reddit co-founder alexis ohanian.rosoft is making high-speed internet more accessible through the united states. they announced a new campaign dubbed the rural error band airiative, -- error band -- band initiative which will aim , to eliminate the gap in high-speed internet access in the hardest to reach areas. it would eliminate the broadband gap over the next five years, funding projects in 12 states in the upcoming years. microsoft plans to provide fast internet to 2 million people. coming up, we are turning our focus to asia. china's great internet firewall could get even tougher to penetrate. plus, we are on the ground in china, we will show you which gadgets the youngest consumers in the country are gravitating toward. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: this week the chinese , government said it would not disrupt legitimate access to the global internet by businesses and general users. this comes after bloomberg reported that china had ordered telecom characters to bar individuals from using vpn services to circumvent

emily: that was the reddit co-founder.icrosoft is making high-speed internet or accessible through the united states. they announced a new campaign which will aim to eliminate the gap in high-speed internet access in the hardest to reach areas. it would eliminate the broadband gap over the next five years, funding projects in 12 states. microsoft plans to provide fast internet to millions of people. coming up, we are turning our focus to asia. the internet firewall in china could get tougher to penetrate. china,on the ground in we will show you which gadgets consumers are grabbing -- gravitating toward. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: the chinese government said it would not disrupt legitimate access to the global internet by is in general users. bloomberg reported that china had ordered telecom characters to bar individuals from using vps services to circumvent firewalls. they said in a statement that trade and enterprises requiring internet abroad can turn to authorized telecommunication entities. this does not affect normal

that user of reddit's on-line board reacted enthusiastically.r expected my meme to be retweeted by the god emperor himself. i am honored. but others are worried, including the anti-defamation league and surveyed the user's post and found a consistent record of racism, anti-semitism and bigotry. this individual traffics an on-line hatred and at times violent rhetoric. and the adl seems to call out the president saying, when those on the fringe of society feel they're mainstream is getting media attention, that should raise alarms. >> the fake media is trying to silence us. but we will not let them. because the people know the truth. the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house, but i'm president and they're not. >> reporter: it all comes as the president is raging away at the media with a fiery speech and a twitter attack on two msnbc hosts that was so coarse, members of his own party were stunned. >> for the president of the united states, the greatest country of the world, the person who is representing our country to use that

. >>> but first, did cnn blackmail the reddit user behind trump's wrestling video? how the news network responded to claims this it -- that it threatened someone. that's next on wusa9. i'm tracking a bunch of showers south of town and light moderate ones. they're creeping northward now into southern fairfax and southern prince george's county. northern calvert and approaching route 66 or i-66 i should say there in prince william and fauquier. we have a yellow weather alert thursday for more rain and showers. those details are coming up in just a few minutes. >>> trending today, people on twitter are accusing cnn of blackmailing a pro trump reddit user. >> cnn says it tracked down that user who created the initial wrestling meme that the president tweeted out earlier in week and the -- this week can the reason is because the -- and the reason is because the white house claims it didn't get the original gif from reddit. now the hashtag #cnnblackmail is trending because some believe the network is threatening to reveal the identity of the user if he posts similar memes

found this the reddit user who created think if well here's how c.n.n. has since responded to the accusations it say's that the person's name has not yet been disclosed because of safety concerns and the assumption of blackmailing him is falls we spoke exclusively to a moderator for the reddit website which is where the clip originated he asked us to conceal his identity. just say you're the sky high on a solo the guy who posted the original gif it would be frightening if i were him and i received random phone calls random emails from c. mail out of nowhere i would not be super enthusiastic about c.n.n. one of the largest news communities in the world sending out boy threats about telling you to stop doing what you want to do on the internet policy and has no right to do that c.n.n. has all the internet against them right now and one organizations attack freedom of speech and never ends up well for them and make no mistake about it this is an attack on the internet and c.n.n. has informally declared war on it in return we need to hit c.n.n. we're hurts a

memes on sectional reddit alone now has over fourteen thousand followers. i thought it was wrong markable but c.n.n. found this the reddit user who created think if all that we are will his home see innocence responded to the accusations to put the record straight it says that his name has not yet been disclosed because of concerns for his safety as they put it and that any assumption of blackmailing him is false we spoke exclusively to the moderates of the reddit website which is where the clip originated he asked us to to conceal his identity. just say you're the sky high on a solo the guy who posted the original gif it would be frightening if i were him and i received random phone calls random e-mails from c. mail out of nowhere i would not be super enthusiastic about c.n.n. one of the largest news communities in the world sending out boy threats about telling you to stop doing what you want to do on the internet policy and has no right to do that c.n.n. has all the internet against them right now and when organizations attack freedom of speech and never

blackmail all across america and while this particular reddit user has a. history of posting vulgar or instant barry comments posts or means it would appear that the internet is not thrilled with the idea that it has corporation appears to be bullying the little guy so add things are really looking so good for c.n.n. right now because it seems like they're making a series of editor.

petition page so a few years ago a reddit user name quink he created a graphic showing how without net neutrality a fictional service provider named telco might offer a basic service for twenty five a month but that will only get access to a user to a very very basic set of websites want to do a little research other telcos plan because you have five bucks a month to use search engines water watch c.n.n. that's another five dollars package for u.s. news and if you want to read the b.b.c. that would be another five dollars for foreign news this is what you guys want the internet to look like and you really want comcast to know everything about every website you visit every. forme you put in everything everything you say on email and only you love looking at these bizarre alternative universes the internet was its computer network government networks and go away with us with our text i was made it war what made it so wonderful that changed lives and saves lives was no your trial it was the private sector when the government tried to take over when the government tried to step in and take

cnn lengthed to out the reddit user who created the trump-cnn wrestling video. jesse: after a meme of the there are vent viral body slamming a loco of cnn. we wanted to see what wwe fans thought. roll the tape. what did you think about this trump-cnn wrestling video? >> i thought it was great. i love everything trump does. best president we ever had. >> pretty damn stupid. >> whoever did it did a wrong job. >> donald trump is showing the world how fake mainstream media is. >> he attacked cnn the way he attacked great news and pell make america great again. jesse: did the trump cnn video make want to do try lens to anybody at cnn? >> of course not. the president has never inspired violence. jesse: cnn is blackmailing the maker of the video. >> that's terrible. it's absurd to try to break someone's first amendment rights. jesse: what's more fake, cnn or wrestling. >> wrestling. jesse: wrong. >> wrestling, i'll never say that's fake. >> most of the stuff on there is pure anti-conservative [bleep] jesse: pretends i'm on cnn and take me down. i'm not going to push if

blackmail all across america and while this particular reddit user has a. history of posting vulgar or in cindy airy comments posts really means it would appear that the internet is not thrilled with the idea that a huge corporation appears to be bullying the little guy so add things are really looking so good for c.n.n. right now because it seems like they're making a series of editorial missteps and president trump keeps calling them out on it and all of this though just deepening the feud between the two which in turn trickles down to the rest of us here in the media world kind of a bold the president doesn't get everywhere the smell of thank you and that is our news tonight we'll see you tomorrow night. sleep.

. >> the creator has posted a lengthy apology on reddit although it's since been deleted.ote, it was a prarnk and nothing more. >> cnn says it identified the reddit user's real name but agreed not to publish it because of the extensive apology. >>> but jokes between president trump and cnn have caught on. a light saber dual between the two. president trump in a sumo wrestler's outfit. st is that what i am a seeing there? >> yeah. >> and the long, red tie? >> that's one way to sill great america's birthday. did you do much sue mo wrestlin? >> not today. >> strange. >>> the reunite for the first time. >> together again opening up to our chris conley about their onscreen chemistry and why glove is getting too old for this stuff. >>> as temperatures keep climbing we have more scenes like this. a police officer breaking into a hot car when he spotted a dog inside. the windows are up, the engine is o we'll show you how this one ends. >> and you can always weigh in on facebook, wnnfans.com and on twitter. and you are watching world nows now. you...smells fine, but yourin your pas

put it on reddit.had, like, 60,000 views. >> have these women come up and say hey i've been in therapy for the last five years? >> no. nobody's gotten ahold of me yet. i have no idea who they are. they just came around the corner. i was puppeting this thing. i was in the middle of a shot and i didn't want to stop. and they hadn't seen me at that point. so i had this thought if i called out to them, it would be creepy. but the reality of it was that it was even creepier i didn't say anything. then they saw me. and i was like puppeting this baby doll. i'll just explain i'm filming a music video and it'll be fine. i open my mouth to say something and then they scream. and ran away. >> so how has the baby doll clip going viral hepped your music video? >> well, i guess that remains to be seen. because the baby doll just has so much character. my teddy bear that i've had since i was 2, he's a great star. the thing came together. i really hope people like it. >>> that's our show. thanks for watching. rightthi

well the author of cnn's article about the implicated reddit user has responded to the allegations of blackmail in a tweet he says the line about revealing the person's identity has been misinterpreted and simply means there was no agreement on that issue or my colleague to do or to discuss the scandal with freddie gray the deputy editor of britain's spectator magazine. now the russian defense ministry says it's taken out a number of ice all positions in syria that's amid ongoing syrian peace talks in the capital astern or has artie's remind kozyrev. two hundred ninety five strategic bombers dropped brang strategic cruise missiles on the border of hama and holmes provinces in syria and they fired those strikes at a distance all one thousand kilometers destroying three weapons and ammunition stockpiles as well as one command center now those high precision missiles are capable of being fired from a range of forty five hundred kilometers and according to russia's objective control they did their job very effectively now this is all happening on the back all of. these talks was just conc

he edited this, a clip from a wwe broadcast originally posted on reddit. trump slamming vince mcmahon. it was altered to make it look like he was attacking a figure with a cnn logo for a head. it's since become one of the president's most shared, re-tweeted posts ever -- sadly. some of the president's fans laughed at the clip. members of the media, some of whom have faced threats for their reporting, took it for seriously. it came just three days after presidential spokeswoman sarah huckabee sanders said this -- >> the president in no way, form, or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. if anything, quite the contrary. >> cnn's official statement on the wrestling tweet calls that sanders statement a lie. meantime, some twitter users flagged the tweet saying it violates the social media company's ban on "hateful conduct" but twitter decided it did not cross the line. official reaction from washington and beyond has been mostly one sided against the president. in part because it's been radio silence from most republicans. just before trump posted

reveal who is behind the kept if another is made now we spoke exclusively to a moderator for the reddit page with a clip originated he asked us to conceal his identity to just say you're this guy on a solo the guy who posted the original gift it would be frightening if i were him and i received random phone calls or in emails from see email out of nowhere i would not be super in boozy yesterday about c.n.n. one of the news communities in the world so you know if we can throw it's about telling you to stop doing what you want to do on the internet c.n.n. has no right to do the c.n.n. has all the internet against them right now and one organizations attack freedom of speech and never ends up well for them and make no mistake about it this is an attack on the internet and c.n.n. has formally declared war on it in return we need to see you know we're hurt and told her every time as yours that you do not approve of them by running ads on their network our site right now on the road the people who are pushing this you know hash tag on there are exposing c.n.n. for the fraud news network they

thank you thank you thank you thank you thank what we spoke exclusively to a moderator for the reddit flipside from the clip originated in he asked to conceal his identity to just say you're the scar on a solo on the guy who posted the original good it will be frightening if i were him and i received random phone calls or in an email from simo out of nowhere i would not be super enthusiastic about c.n.n. one of the largest new scheme unities in the world certainly not boy get throats about telling you to start doing what you want to do on the internet and has no right to do that c.n.n. has all of the internet against them right now and one organizations attacks freedom of speech and never ends up well for them and make no mistake about it this is an attack on the internet and c.n.n. has formally declared war on them in return we need to hit c.n.n. we're hurts i'm told or ever tire is yours that you do not approve of by running ads on their network our site right now on the road the people who are pushing the c.n.n. blackmail hash tag on there are exposing c.n.n. for the fraud news net

we spoke exclusively to a moderator for the reddit web site from where the clip originated he else justto conceal his identity just say you're this guy on a solo oh i'm the guy who posted the original guess it would be frightening if i were him and i received random phone calls or in an email from simo out of nowhere i would not be super and doozie asked about c.n.n. one of the largest new scheme unities in the world so you know it we can throw about telling you to start doing what you want to do on the internet policy and has no right to do that c.n.n. has all the internet against them right now and one organizations attacks freedom of speech and never ends up well for them and make no mistake about it this is an attack on the internet and c.n.n. has formally declared war on it in return we need to hit c.n.n. we're hertz and told her every time is yours that you do not approve of by running ads on their network our site right now on the road the people who are pushing the c.n.n. blackmail hash tag on there are exposing c.n.n. for the fraud news network that they are on are doing the ri

according to the article, the network decided against releasing this reddit user's identity because, "he is a private citizen" he shook his remark by saying he is taken down all his offending post, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. the article then went on to issue what appeared to be a not so veiled threat. "cnn reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change." cnn has denied any allegations of blackmail, issuing a statement that read in part "cnn decided not to publish the name of the reddit user out of concern for his safety." joining us now in a reaction to the latest investment of cnn is salem radio nationally syndicated radio host larry elder, and from "the hill" joe concha. when cnn says, we are not publishing his name because we are concerned for his personal safety, but then they turn around and say, but if he's bad, if he does anything like this again, we are going to dock him. tell us what that means. >> it's interesting you bring up that on safety. because if he were to do something that they deem

the author of cnn's altar call about the implicated reddit user has responded to the allegations of blackmail in a tweet he says the line about revealing the person's identity has been misinterpreted and simply means that there was no agreement on not issues earlier i discussed the scandal with freddie gray the deputy editor of britain's the spectator magazine. this was obviously trolling or trying to wind up c.n.n. a bit on the bait. and traced back to the person who came up with that video who created that video and effectively silenced him effectively blackmailed him i think it's childish of donald trump in the first place it's equally told us of c.n.n. and it's quite funny in the case of c.n.n. because they're a network that takes himself so seriously that they've been shown to be as childish as donald trump and they're also saying that the clip in science violence against journalists how true do you think this is that's all i want to swear so that's obviously complete rubbish. and you know it's just what happens on twitter and everyone needs to grow up a bit about it i mean some are sayi

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found the reddit user behind the trump wrestling gifts and at first it seemed like a mild attempt to damage control until this line c.n.n. is not publishing the person's name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts because he said he is not going to repeat here this ugly behavior of social media again but this once c.n.n. reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change and that itself led many to believe that the network was basically blackmailing or dog seeing the man despite his apology for creating the video the author of the article went on twitter to debunk this claim that's a lie or in a separate tweet he also said it was misinterpreted nothing to see here move along but if so why has it left so many people outraged from different sides of political debate. the multi billion dollar t.v. network blackmailing a private citizen into not making funny videos about it is no generalism c.n.n. there is something self evidently creepy bullying and heavy ha

president trump weighing in on allegations that he had blackmailed a reddit user who created a video the president body slamming a mocked up cnn character. mr. trump had to say and what the network may have broken the law -- we discussed. with hydrogenated oil... ...but real joyful moments are shared over the real cream in reddi-wip. ♪ reddi-wip. share the joy. for years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ we deliver super-fast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than centurylink. we do business where you do business. ♪ ♪ >> meghan: more "outnumbered" in just a moment, but first on skype about coming up in in the second hour of "happening now." >> jon: and our next hour, president trump making major news this morning with a big speech and warsaw, poland. we'll talk with chris wallace on the news he made in russia. article five of nato, north korea, and the ong

going to stop doing what it does at the time so the author of cnn's article about the implicated reddit user has dismissed on occasions a black man tweet he says the line about revealing the person's identity has been misinterpreted and simply mean there was no agreement on that issue. the wrestling video may not be the only thing that c.n.n. would find offensive if it looks online though it would have quite a job tracking down all the relevant content. thanks to thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you kay court has held a hearing on whether to lift tony blair's immunity from prosecution over the iraq war artie's laurence smith reports the background to this is that last year a private criminal prosecution was brought against barrett was blocked by judges because it was ruled that blair would have immunity against criminal prosecution so there was no point proceeding with it this case they could see that to mean or see overturned it could see him face charges and in fact the charge that they want to level is one of aggression to the second aim of this case is to esta

"should cnn reveal the name of the reddit user who made trump wrestling video?ad a lot of hateful and bigoted material on page and websites." releasing this guy's name would endanger his safety, but he's got "bigoted and hateful material," so maybe he deserves it, you decide, citizens of twitter, spare or kill him. your call.e' this is getting grotesque. you were all better when cnn stuck to wars and airplanes.it -- and hurricanes. mark steyn is a long-time newsnn watcher, author, and columnist, and he joins us tonight. they put their crack investigators on the questionn of who made this on the internet, why not find out where al-baghdadi is if you're that good at that stuff? >> that's what they should be doing. this guy is entirely tangential to it. the way things work on the internet is, somebody send somebody a picture, and that person emails it to somebody else, and that person tweets it to somebody else, and 37,000 links later, it has become a thing, and nobody cares who created it or what other content he has created. even if you accept chris cuomo's defin