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CNN accidentally broadcast 30 minutes of hardcore porn last night
- ry4n413 10y agoCNN broadcasting FAKE NEWS, Off with their heads!
- ry4n413 10y agoMust be those nefarious Russian hackers!
- woliveirajr 10y ago> (...) after a grave error by RCN, a local cable TV provider based in New Jersey that provides CNN's broadcasting all down the east coast. > Apparently, only viewers in Boston experienced the mistake on Thursday night as one viewer voiced her concerns on Twitter. According to these lines from [1], it was a localized problem, and wasn't from the CNN stream, but from the RCN replaying a wrong feed to subscribers. [1] http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/cnn-accidentally-airs-30-minutes-of-non-stop-hardcore-porn-a7439371.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/cnn-...
- djsumdog 10y agoI wonder if someone found and exploit on their network and did this for kicks, or maybe a disgruntled employee with enough access left in a time bomb before he or she was let go.
- ranman 10y agoI think it is more likely that "parts unknown" was part of a porn title.
- Animats 10y agoPlausible, but apparently not.[1] [1] http://www.iafd.com/results.asp?searchtype=comprehensive&searchstring=parts http://www.iafd.com/results.asp?searchtype=comprehensive&sea...
- codedokode 10y agoWhy would they have a porn in the studio?
- smsm42 10y agoSome providers have PPV or subscription adult channels.
- swang 10y agothe person whose tweet is in the news article had to protect her* tweet because people were sending her hate mail. what the hell.
- anigbrowl 10y agoLeft to themselves,a significant number of people are awful. You know, between natural language processing, sentiment analysis, clustering and so on, IDing things like hateful tweets or persistently hateful tweeters seems well within the capability of today's AI. Nor do I think it would be too hard to find funding or a revenue stream for a reliable Asshole Detector. I mean, companies don't want to hire assholes, and browsing the news would be so much more pleasant if comments from assholes were pre-emptively labeled as such.
- djsumdog 10y agoTwitter does censor stuff, and that's not a good thing. I mean no, you shouldn't be a bully/asshole/send death treats and that's a horrible thing to do; but the censoring and removing posts of people you don't like starts to create an echo chamber. People with non-hateful grievances can have their posts swept up in the same net. When people are anonymous, they tend to be more candid about what's really deep down inside. The solution isn't to create A.I.s to censor everything. The tweets are a symptom of frustration in society. The real problem is much more difficult to fix.
- ianai 10y agoYou can label them without deleting them. It'd be no different than a up/down vote at that point.
- drdeca 10y agoWell, surely you don't mean that the people receiving the bad messages should have to read them, because of course you agree that they don't have to look at twitter at all. But, why would it be important to require them to see these in order to see other posts on twitter, if they only want to see the other ones. So, I don't see what the problem would be in providing the users with an opt-in filter option. If they are concerned that it could put them in a filter bubble, they could just not enable it, and if they are not concerned about the possibility of a filter bubble, and find the bad messages unpleasant, they could enable it. This would all just be following user choice. Yes, if the features you give people for filtering messages are set up in certain ways, they may make it a bit easier than would be best for users to create filter bubbles for themselves, but it would at least be the user's own choice. As long as someone who wants to not get in a filter bubble can reasonably avoid it, then it seems like that's good enough on that front to me. edit: Ideally, I think, the user would be able to fine tune the filters that they choose to use, and the simplest options would be such that they do not cause much of a filter bubble. But I think to really respect user freedom, allowing the user to create a filter bubble for themself (perhaps using 3rd party tools) is maybe necessary?
- clishem 10y agoWhat was broadcasted exactly?
- ChoGGi 10y ago"replaced with explicit material starring transsexual pornstar Riley Quinn" http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/cnn-accidentally-airs-30-minutes-of-non-stop-hardcore-porn-a7439371.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/cnn-...
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- ry4n413 10y ago"It remains to be seen if in response to its collapsing ratings, CNN will refocus from waging war on "fake media", and make airing of hard core porn during primetime TV a part of scheduled programming. Come, pardon the pun, to think of it, "Deep Quote with Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper" is a "news" show we could certainly sink our teeth into." ZH
- bitwize 10y agoThis sounds like something from Idiocracy, in which Starbucks had pivoted into the brothel-chain business.
- zoul 10y agoAs far as decency goes, I think that’s a reasonable improvement over the recent presidential election coverage.
- makomk 10y agoAlthough this is hilarious, it seems to be sourced to a single Twitter user. I wonder if it's actually true or just another example of fake news making it onto real news sites?
- AndrewKemendo 10y agoI think it's probably right that this is bullshit. 30 minutes of hardcore porn on CNN at 11PM on Thanksgiving on a popular cable network in Boston is an eternity. The idea that only one person saw it and reported it is absurd. Edit, To wit: http://www.mediaite.com/online/did-the-media-fall-for-a-fake-story-about-cnn-airing-30-minutes-of-hardcore-porn-last-night/ http://www.mediaite.com/online/did-the-media-fall-for-a-fake...
- ghurtado 10y agoAbsolutely: > ...pixelates the naughty parts while leaving the TiVo lower third graphic untouched. That was the sentence that locked in the "bullshit alert signal" for me.
- scottshea 10y agoGiven how badly CNN has fallen in its standards this did not seem as far fetched as it once might have been
- sunnyP 10y agoI can see how Parts Unknown can be confused for a porn title.
- ScottBurson 10y agoSurprised no one has mentioned that this could have been a TiVo problem -- either an error in their programming data, or, more likely considering that only one user seems to have reported it, a malfunction in an individual TiVo unit. I've had a TiVo for years, and they do screw up or crash occasionally.
- james_pm 10y agoAdd TNW to the fake news list. They got it all wrong in their rush to publish.
- Dowwie 10y agoHacker news needs to enable downvoting for articles. Fake news is here to stay.