Media spreads incorrect story of New Zealand mass shooter & crypto...

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Quote from: LUCKMCFLY on March 20, 2019, 08:06:50 PM

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Anything that manages to influence, is a somewhat corrupt method what they try to do against technology and progress, the media should have a little more professional ethics when launching news of that nature.

This is why I don't really trust media. They don't understand what they are saying usually and it is very disappointing. I still remember the time where I have proved that media are trying to manipulate people's mind and that was the time I stopped watching the news on TVs.

I am very sad about the people in my previous generation where TVs are the only source of information. I am glad to live in the Internet era and not within the TV area. I'm so disappointed with humanity and the media!

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Is everyone seeing the pattern of how this person purposely mentioned a bunch of dissident type groups in order to cause them to be associated with his violent actions in order to make it a simple task to demonize them? Add a little censorship and boom, you have a machine for manufacturing guilt and the targets are prohibited by law (or TOS) from defending themselves.

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Quote from: Juggy777 on March 19, 2019, 06:49:46 AM

Quote from: Bitinity on March 18, 2019, 08:57:46 PM

I think most local news also spread the same news to connect terrorist and crypto, while in my opinion there is no correlation between terrorist and crypto in general. It seems that there are some people who hate crypto then try to use very bad moment to make people think bad about crypto.

Hey I’m not surprised that the media has decided to harm crypto’s image, without doing any due diligence as usual. The man was an anti Muslim and his thoughts and ideologies were seen in the killings he executed, he didn’t even spare children’s and women’s . I feel the media should be ashamed of themselves for trying to harm bitcoins Image with fabricated facts.

I think that this is something common, always attack Bitcoin and all the crypto market in some way, it is very easy, everyone wants to have some control, when there is technology that governments and third parties can not control, they simply make use of their controlled tools, such as unverified news.

Now all this can bring two possible scenarios:

1.- Make people fear them and the market suffers a small fall.

2.- Make the market rise in price because it is the best option to buy cheaply, since those who are scared will sell as cheaply as possible.

Anything that manages to influence, is a somewhat corrupt method what they try to do against technology and progress, the media should have a little more professional ethics when launching news of that nature.

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Quote from: Bitinity on March 18, 2019, 08:57:46 PM

I think most local news also spread the same news to connect terrorist and crypto, while in my opinion there is no correlation between terrorist and crypto in general. It seems that there are some people who hate crypto then try to use very bad moment to make people think bad about crypto.

Hey I’m not surprised that the media has decided to harm crypto’s image, without doing any due diligence as usual. The man was an anti Muslim and his thoughts and ideologies were seen in the killings he executed, he didn’t even spare children’s and women’s . I feel the media should be ashamed of themselves for trying to harm bitcoins Image with fabricated facts.

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Quote from: KingScorpio on March 19, 2019, 06:14:07 AM

stop using the terms correct or incorrect, you lost the right to do that with the creation of bitcoin,

the central banks and the communal fiat driven people put you for economic reasons into a bad light, the same as you lunatics put them for economic reasons in a bad light (oh bitcoin is better than these nasty "fiats")

get used to it. you market your trash they market their "trash"

they are not more bigotted and agenda driven than you are.

correct and incorrect is to universal

Are you seriously going to blabber on your anti-bitcoin bullshit views even in a topic that isn't specifically made to talk about bitcoin in the first place, but the media's inaccurate news? Seriously, jog on.

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media quote we increasingly know there is no truth there, the terrorist act actually spreads fear and he also says he will repeat the action again. cryptocurrencies have nothing to do with their criminal actions and I think terrorists make money in groups rather than individually, the media cornering the crypto is an issue that makes no sense

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stop using the terms correct or incorrect, you lost the right to do that with the creation of bitcoin,

the central banks and the communal fiat driven people put you for economic reasons into a bad light, the same as you lunatics put them for economic reasons in a bad light (oh bitcoin is better than these nasty "fiats")

get used to it. you market your trash they market their "trash"

they are not more bigotted and agenda driven than you are.

correct and incorrect is to universal

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Quote from: kudil on March 19, 2019, 04:26:51 AM

Quote from: alisafidel58 on March 19, 2019, 03:38:57 AM

The drama that the media brings really amazed me. They are only trying to take the blame over cryptocurrency on why did the shooter to such thing. Obviously, he hates Muslims so much that he went to a Muslim church and do some rampant shooting there.
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I guess, He doesn't hate Muslims but he hates immigrants and afraid the dominance of "white people" can be replaced.

it is an act of terrorism and has little to do with hate this group or that group. terrorists don't kill masses to decrease dominance of "white people" either.
act of terrorism quite simply has only one purpose: to create terror and fear.

the media on the other hand is taking advantage of that emotions to run the hottest topic and if they can throw in something like cryptocurrencies that are also hot topic they wouldn't hesitate.

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Wouldn’t really matter if he was involved in bitcoin. Lunatic who kills people is involved in a form of money......Doesn’t really matter if it is bitcoin or fiat. People use money to do stuff lol.

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Quote from: Bitinity on March 18, 2019, 08:57:46 PM

I think most local news also spread the same news to connect terrorist and crypto, while in my opinion there is no correlation between terrorist and crypto in general. It seems that there are some people who hate crypto then try to use very bad moment to make people think bad about crypto.

In my local, 99% news/articles about bitcoin have referred bitcoin as a way of buying/selling on darkweb or buying/selling illegal products. Those reading these articles, are thinking bitcoin as a illegal payment method despite it is a currency.

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I just knew about this and then, I try to search a news in my local media, then I just found it, like this. They say Bitconnect is digital money, like Bitcoin. I bet they're only check an article from other international media and copy-paste it to gain more money from their article.

Quote from: alisafidel58 on March 19, 2019, 03:38:57 AM

The drama that the media brings really amazed me. They are only trying to take the blame over cryptocurrency on why did the shooter to such thing. Obviously, he hates Muslims so much that he went to a Muslim church and do some rampant shooting there.
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I guess, He doesn't hate Muslims but he hates immigrants and afraid the dominance of "white people" can be replaced.

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The drama that the media brings really amazed me. They are only trying to take the blame over cryptocurrency on why did the shooter to such thing. Obviously, he hates Muslims so much that he went to a Muslim church and do some rampant shooting there.

The media is bias on some of their reporting, they can't find a decent report on whos to blame on why did the shooter do such act and cryptocurrency is the scapegoat.

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With such headline I expected to see that someone will blame him for buying something illegal in dark web and paying with bitcoin, which is a pretty common thing.
But the argument that he used returns from his crypto investments to travel and buy some other stuff can be used with any other kind of investment or just a normal job. The source of his money totally doesn't matter.

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The media are looking for a scapegoat or something to blame for this senseless killings. He did not buy guns on the Black market with Crypto currencies, he used Fiat/Credit cards to purchase these guns, but nothing is being said about that, because they cannot blame the government for printing money and it is not sensational enough, if it was fiat cash or a credit card. Roll Eyes

The media like to sensationalize events and will change the information to suit their agenda and the agenda of the masters that are pulling the strings.

The fact is, the government did not prevent this, but rather caused this by allowing the public to buy automatic rifles and also not reacting on intelligence that extremist like this was in possession of weapons and ammunition that can cause mass killings like this. Angry

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Media needs something trending or something that easily gains the attention. It is easy to spread one's negative part of life than the good he has done. The shooter is a bad human, and what all things can be attributed with him gets added. And one such is the cryptocurrency. He might have used cryptocurrency, but what media will say cryptocurrency is being used to buy the guns. This is how interpretation happens and the same gets negative thinking about bitcoin on common people's minds.

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that has been a part and parcel of the media outlets for a very long time, the yellower they are, the less researched news they publish. of course there are times when the big guys in the business also publish similar falsified news but they do it for some other hidden agenda.
in the end i think they have overdone it enough times that the effects of such negativity in the minds of the viewers isn't that big anymore.

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Quote from: mk4 on March 18, 2019, 08:25:05 PM

Regardless if the mass shooter made a statement concerning BitConnect or not, I'm pretty sure that's not what caused him to do what he did though. Dude was a messed up anti-muslim extremist to begin with; being scammed by BitConnect probably didn't do much with his extremist views.

Note that the dude also mentioned some memes and internet copypastas, so we're not actually sure if he was actually a victim on the BitConnect scam or if he's just meme-ing even though his tone on his message was quite serious.

Yep, That is correct, I don't think that the mass shooter suspect is doing that terrible massacre because he is scammed by BitConnect or anything, he is just a plain ill-minded person just like the other terrorist that spreads terror all around the world for the sake of their happiness or belief and does not respect other people way of life or way of living.
Just ignore those media that spreads false news about Crypto Currency because most of them are against Crypto Currency and they are nothing but a bunch of paid FUD spreaders that are controlled by some huge manipulators.

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Looks to me like Fox News was the only one who was outright dishonest, saying explicitly that he made money from Bitcoin. Others simply drew comparisons, which may be necessary because I'm sure not a lot of their audience have heard of cryptocurrency before, but are familiar with Bitcoin one way or another. It could be argued that Bitconnect wasn't truly a cryptocurrency, much in the vein of Ripple, etc., but the mainstream won't be able to follow that anyway.

As for the Washington Post's piece, well, rotten apples ruining the bunch isn't an entirely new occurrence to crypto. It's unfortunate, but people ignorant to the topic will believe what they want to believe in; some people still firmly believe that Bitcoin is still predominantly used for drugs, for example. I do agree that citing crypto use in this case is unnecessary at best, and malicous at worst though.

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Media is always like that and never change, they conceal what is the truth and tell lies about a certain scope. Now they even drag crypto currencies to the shooter to give negative image again to the who crypto society even though the only project the shooter was into was the scam project Bitconnect. The shooter did not even use Bitcoin and yet the media is telling crypto as whole. They are now totally branding "crypto" as scam,bubble and every bad words that comes in to their mind.

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The article did help crypto haters, but crypto continues to grow, events in NZ are indeed very regrettable and this is certainly a lot of people who criticize this action. We as crypto users always think positively for the benefits, and hopefully we are able to control all crypto assets to something more useful.

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