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[alr1ght]

Logo on his twitter is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Anzhi_Makhachkala

FC Anzhi Makhachkala (Russian: ФК "Анжи" Махачкал&#1072 is a Russian football club based in Makhachkala, capital of the Republic of Dagestan.

 

[Sanjuro]

Press conference with Deval and Mumbles.

 

[jelmerjt]

His tweets (most of them) can be found here: http://www.allmytweets.net/?screen_name=J_tsar

 

[BigDug13]

They're not. People rag on CNN for jumping the gun all the time, but hey Reddit/somepeopleongaf did the same shit. No one comes out swell from this.

I really feel for the Sunil family, to first lose their son and then to face this sort of internet bullshit.

The difference is that CNN is a multimillion dollar media conglomerate who's job it is to get it right. Reddit is not.

 

[Gary Whitta]

they don't call themselves the press? (or at least i hope they dont)

They probably have a bigger audience and moved the needle on this story more than CNN did. But they don't face the same kind of accountability.

 

[Meelow]

Press conference happening.

 

[DietRob]

I don't think Reddit comes out of this looking great. 12 hours ago people were saying "OMG Reddit is the new FBI, world will never be the same" when the Brown U story they started was getting traction. In the cold light of day, how are they any better than CNN?

They aren't.

 

[Philia]

Great, now people are going to be posting that fake facebook message for the next 10 pages.

I'm just glad that dildo and gif are long gone now.

 

[phosphor112]

Its him, few of his friends follower tweeted that its him, and confirmed by CNN

This guy also convo'd with the suspect and tweeted this..
https://twitter.com/Kid_Wavyy/status/325210202859245568

That's weird. I guess it is.

 

[Funky Papa]

So... what are the chances he managed to skip town?

 

[ActStriker]

Deval Patrick speaking

 

[MIMIC]

Reddit isn't the press, they aren't journalists, and they never "started a story."

Nonetheless, they're even less credible than they were before (assuming they even had any creditability to start with)

 

[pulga]

The suspect is an Anzhi fan? Holy shit lol

I don't think Reddit comes out of this looking great. 12 hours ago people were saying "OMG Reddit is the new FBI, world will never be the same" when the Brown U story they started was getting traction. In the cold light of day, how are they any better than CNN?

They arent. They should be ashamed of themselves for associating a student who might possibly be dead with the pieces of shit wreaking havoc across Boston.

 

[MooseKing]

No they weren't. It just bubbled up from the internet, it was never on the police scanner. No one heard it, there were like a hundred people listening to it on the thread last night.

They said the missing brown student on the police scanner. Nobody on Neogaf was talking about it until the shootout was over.

 

[sangreal]

It was the police on the scanners who said it was the missing brown student. Reddit posted it a few hours prior as a POSSIBLE suspect and were asking police to look into it.

No sorry, that is bullshit. The police never said that on scanners. Would be happy to be proven wrong if someone provides a recording, but we were all listening to the same thing

They said the missing brown student on the police scanner. Nobody on Neogaf was talking about it until the shootout was over.

This is wrong too. This is the 3rd thread discussing the chase/manhunt

 

[jim-jam bongs]

Riiiiiiight. Good luck with that.

Thanks, I think I'll need it.

They may have started it, but many on gaf went right along with it.

Don't worry, I've been a vocal advocate of the "shut the fuck up and let the authorities do their jobs" camp here too.

 

[alr1ght]

It was the police on the scanners who said it was the missing brown student. Reddit posted it a few hours prior as a POSSIBLE suspect and were asking police to look into it.

No, it was never heard anywhere.

 

[Wag]

Mumbles!!!

 

[gcubed]

They probably have a bigger audience and moved the needle on this story more than CNN did. But they don't face the same kind of accountability.

thats the people who read and trust reddit's fault then. CNN is worse because being part of the "news" gives them credibility

 

[BFIB]

So... what are the chances he managed to skip town?

Highly doubtful.

City is on lockdown. He's holed up somewhere.

 

[C Jones]

It was the police on the scanners who said it was the missing brown student. Reddit posted it a few hours prior as a POSSIBLE suspect and were asking police to look into it.

Multiple people said that never came up on the police scanner.

 

[kingkitty]

The difference is that CNN is a multimillion dollar media conglomerate who's job it is to get it right. Reddit is not.

CNN is a stinker but it doesn't excuse the internet's stupidity.

Someone take CNN out to the pasture.

 

[Colonel Nasty]

Logo on his twitter is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Anzhi_Makhachkala

They're the Yankees of Russia, no big deal.

 

[Arsenic Yellow]

I live in a huge Russian immigrant area in Philly. Shit will not end well if they keep calling these people Russian.

My boyfriend decided to go to work today in Framingham (about 15-19 miles west of Watertown)
He's a Russian immigrant that has a temp green card and I'm so worried . He wanted us to drive to NJ tonight but I told him no. We live a little outside of boston at the moment, but are moving into the city at the end of May. They need to stop just lumping all these countries together as Russia.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

They said the missing brown student on the police scanner. Nobody on Neogaf was talking about it until the shootout was over.

No, they didn't. And people were listening to the scanners shortly after the MIT report came in.

 

[Bodacious]

Great, now people are going to be posting that fake facebook message for the next 10 pages.

hey guise, is this real? I found it on reddit.

I'm waiting for the one that says, "They set up us the bomb."

 

[Ace Harding]

Is this real?

No. Come on man.

 

[LiK]

Someone fix Menino's mic

 

[MIMIC]

It was the police on the scanners who said it was the missing brown student. Reddit posted it a few hours prior as a POSSIBLE suspect and were asking police to look into it.

Absolutely false. It was said dozens of times in here last night that NO one heard that on the scanners. And a whole truck load of people here were listening (including me)

 

[goldsoundz]

This is surreal. So many law enforcement agents.

 

[Mr Cola]

Silly question but im genuinely curious, is this an actual curfew in effect or a request? Can people go outside or will they be ushered to their homes by police if they are found doing so?

 

[CrankyJay]

He's probably dead in the forest somewhere...

 

[DrEvil]

link to conf stream?

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

They probably have a bigger audience and moved the needle on this story more than CNN did. But they don't face the same kind of accountability.

What about all the people on here that were reciting the same shit? Where's the accountability for neogaf?

 

[Various Artists]

No info from these press conferences

 

[BolognaSoup]

I don't care, I want the guy dead, I hope he's gunned down. I don't want this fuck to burn more expenses of a lengthy trial.

Hell no. We need to go Jack Bauer on his ass and find out who they were working with. No way these two just up and decided to bomb Boston one day all on their own.

 

[Vilix]

Highly doubtful.

City is on lockdown. He's holed up somewhere.

It's a big city though. However, I think he's holed up somewhere too.

 

[Dan]

I don't think Reddit comes out of this looking great. 12 hours ago people were saying "OMG Reddit is the new FBI, world will never be the same" when the Brown U story they started was getting traction. In the cold light of day, how are they any better than CNN?

They most definitely aren't. Just a mob wielding different kinds of weapons.

News organizations and Internet communities dragged a lot of innocent people through the mud this week. They should leave future criminal investigations to actual law enforcement officers.

 

[FuturusX]

Nonetheless, they're even less credible than they were before (assuming they even had any creditability to start with)

Credibility must be earned. Not assumed.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

How did the 2 brothers get all those guns in the first place?

More reason for universal background checks..and the fact that we remain adamant not to do such a thing is so damn baffling. Enjoy your guns america, while innocent people get slaughtered on the streets.

Would universal background checks have helped here? Unless both had extensive criminal records, they still would have been able to buy those guns. If anything, there needs to a limit on the amount of ammo/guns any one individual is allowed to own, but that's an argument for another thread.

 

[speculawyer]

So . . . they got the real guys (well 1 dead and the other identified so he is just a matter of time now).

Awesome they got them so quick (assuming these are the guys).

 

[D4Danger]

They probably have a bigger audience and moved the needle on this story more than CNN did. But they don't face the same kind of accountability.

maybe in the echo chamber of twitter but in the real world people are getting their news from CNN/BBC/Fox etc.

CNN's display over the past few days as they regurgitated a lot of the online stuff was embarrassing for everyone.

 

[DaBuddaDa]

Nonetheless, they're even less credible than they were before (assuming they even had any creditability to start with)

Of course they have no credibility! It's an internet discussion forum, with a bunch of random people participating in what functionally amounts to a real life ARG. They're not the FBI, will never be the FBI, and anyone writing about them as such should just hang up their pen.

 

[Sub_Level]

Thank you so much for blocking their faces out (or whoever edited the pics)

As the uncle proves, people associated with them are not necessarily scum and do not deserve to have their faces put out.

 

[BigDug13]

CNN is a stinker but it doesn't excuse the internet's stupidity.

You're right, but the defense of, "CNN gets it wrong all the time, too." Isn't really a defense for Reddit, it's more of an indictment of how shifty CNN is.

 

[VALIS]

So... what are the chances he managed to skip town?

Seems possible, at least a thousand times more likely than I would have thought considering he's been the subject of a thousands strong city wide manhunt for nearly 12 hours.

 

[alr1ght]

You can watch the presser here
http://www.justin.tv/foxrocks1_hq#/w/5431403840/10

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

Someone fix Menino's mic

That's just how he talks.

And he looks like shit! Good thing he isn't running again. He went into the hospital a couple of months ago and came out looking like death

 

[jim-jam bongs]

Reddit isn't the press, they aren't journalists, and they never "started a story."

According to John Miller on CBS they did. The image of the two guys from Harvard started on the internet, was picked up by analysts then leaked back to the media later in the day.

 

[codhand]

Uncle of the year