Student accused of being Boston Bomber commits suicide

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Such nice people on Reddit

The body was discovered by the coach of the Brown University crew team during practice. The discovery comes just one day after a Reddit moderator put out an apology to Tripathi's family after internet commentators falsely accused him of being one of the bombers.

'I'd like to extend the deepest apologies to the family of Sunil Tripathi for any part we may have had in relaying what has turned out to be faulty information,' the moderator of the FindBostonBombers subreddit wrote in a statement.



 
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Aoxomoxoa said:

Such nice people on Reddit

The body was discovered by the coach of the Brown University crew team during practice. The discovery comes just one day after a Reddit moderator put out an apology to Tripathi's family after internet commentators falsely accused him of being one of the bombers.

'I'd like to extend the deepest apologies to the family of Sunil Tripathi for any part we may have had in relaying what has turned out to be faulty information,' the moderator of the FindBostonBombers subreddit wrote in a statement.
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Horrible. This should be front page news and a warning to the haters.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:

Such nice people on Reddit

The body was discovered by the coach of the Brown University crew team during practice. The discovery comes just one day after a Reddit moderator put out an apology to Tripathi's family after internet commentators falsely accused him of being one of the bombers.

'I'd like to extend the deepest apologies to the family of Sunil Tripathi for any part we may have had in relaying what has turned out to be faulty information,' the moderator of the FindBostonBombers subreddit wrote in a statement.
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Not defending the reddit morons by any means, but I think it'd be wise to wait until we know how long he has been dead before drawing a connection between the reddit assholery and his death. He's been missing for over a month and may well have died long before his name cropped up as a Marathon Bomber suspect.

Now, for his family to have to deal with all that nonsense is a goddman shame, regardless.
 
Dungheap said:
Not defending the reddit morons by any means, but I think it'd be wise to wait until we know how long he has been dead before drawing a connection between the reddit assholery and his death. He's been missing for over a month and may well have died long before his name cropped up as a Marathon Bomber suspect.

Now, for his family to have to deal with all that nonsense is a goddman shame, regardless.
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I didn't know that much about it. Thought someone spotted him at the Marathon.
 
also he has been missing since mid march. He probably committed suicide before anything went down due to the boston bombing.
 
Reddit didn't need to apologise after the Boston Marathon bombing

None of the major news agencies apologised for their errors, so why all this pressure on Reddit?

There are many things that people need to apologize for in the wake of the Boston marathon bombing, but Reddit apologizing for users failing to follow site rules is nowhere near the top of this "I'm sorry" list. Nevertheless, that's what we got on Monday from Reddit's GM Erik Martin in an official Reddit blog post. While it is true Martin's sentiment is sweet, what exactly is Reddit apologizing for again? Especially when no one else has?
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The subreddit's unofficial, frenzied investigation was so interesting to the media, it ended up dominating the news cycle. Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon likened Reddit's investigation to "backchannel noise" in his piece lightly scolding the media's fascination with the online community's activity titled "The social media tail mustn't wag the MSM dog":
"No mainstream journalism outlet should allow its coverage of a major story to be hijacked by backchannel noise."
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Words to remember for next time, and surely something to apologize for. No media outlet fell on their sword, however, which isn't surprising of Glenn Beck or Alex Jones, but even the New York Post defended its erroneous cover, prompting pranksters to apologize for them.
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Martin apologizing for the wrongdoings of people he can't control comes off a little odd when you consider the lack of an apology from actual media outlets. Moderators on Reddit are not paid, nor are they trained, but here they are apologizing personally to the wrongfully accused even though they themselves didn't do anything wrong.
Official Twitter staff could have apologized for the fake accounts created in the name of the suspect, but didn't, either. No one asked Twitter to apologize either. Hell, Matthew Keys was fired and allegedly let hacktivists deface a former employers website, and he hasn't apologized. No one bothered to apologize for anything, except good guy Reddit.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis...t-boston-marathon-bombing-apology-unnecessary

 
Aoxomoxoa said:
I think he is saying you are a dick, could be wrong though!!
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that's pretty damned close, thanks.

Dung, just so you're brought up to speed, my comment was in reference to there being no demands for any of the mainstream media to issue any apologies, not as an attack against reddit.
 
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