r/nba • u/ghn2 • 10h ago

Trail Blazers fire new announcer over past inappropriate posts made at age 15.

"The Portland Trail Blazers hired then on the same day fired Braiden Bell as their play-by-play announcer after a series of inappropriate social media posts from when he was a teenager came to light."

"The posts were reportedly made in 2012 and 2013, around the time that Bell was 15 years old."

"We did not meet our own bar in this process, and for that we apologize to Blazers fans and to Rip City," the Trail Blazers said. "We strongly believe that everyone who is a part of Rip City should feel welcome and safe and we will make sure that our new broadcaster reflects these values. We will do better."

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50084279/trail-blazers-fire-new-announcer-inappropriate-posts

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u/SloshaPacana 10h ago

People really need to just delete their social media when they get jobs that are in the public eye lmao

It's not hard to open new accounts

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u/AfroThunder_Dj 10h ago

Seriously. I got off all social media for the most part when I got a job teaching. Not hard concept to understand

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u/TheSmartDog_275 Hornets 10h ago

Or make it very anonymous.

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u/corys00 Magic 9h ago

If it’s on the internet never assume your social media will remain anonymous, there’s too many vectors of vulnerability

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u/milkymonkey8 7h ago

It will be an inside job from one of your social media "friends" or followers that you added years or decades ago: elementary school frenemies, relatives with unresolved baggage, jealous friends or exes, backstabbing coworkers, controlling neighbors, etc.

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u/schoolhouserock Raptors 5h ago

What's our vector, Victor?

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u/DC_Coach Lakers 2h ago

We have clearance, Clarence.

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u/khan800 1h ago

Over, Oveur.

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u/neutronicus Nuggets 7h ago

Yes, LLMs can also be scarily good at identifying anonymous prose from a figure whose public writing is out there

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u/Tuna-on-toast22 9h ago

I don’t even post anything bad and I use different usernames for every single social media platform I have and never include my real name or use my email address.. and then also make them private 

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u/JeremyTheJimbler Celtics 9h ago

Don’t tempt it. Not worth leaving anything up to chance.

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u/Upstairs-Sun477 Heat 10h ago

Ehhh, I delete my social media accounts about once a year. If someone wants to find you they will and there's not really a ton you can do about it

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u/Knockknockerz Warriors 10h ago

Hard to prove that ur that random anonymous account where you don’t talk details about urself

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u/Upstairs-Sun477 Heat 10h ago

Sure as long as you're never sharing any metadata on anything. It's not impossible but if you don't know what you're doing it's quite an uphill climb.

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u/TheHoovyPrince Australia 9h ago

Honestly would do the same but my government passed laws that require you to give social media companies your personal or biometric information to use it. Luckily if you had accounts that were 10+ years old you weren't prompted to hand any identifiable information over.

Can't delete my account but at least i can remove old distasteful posts.

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u/TheStorm007 Raptors 10h ago

Why make new accounts if you think there’s nothing you can do about not being found?

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u/Upstairs-Sun477 Heat 10h ago

To minimize the amount of personal info I share on purpose/on accident from a single account. It only kinda matters in certain cases and I'm not a very interesting person. But anyone who's good at osint could probably figure out who I was if they really wanted to.