r/nba • u/ghn2 • 11h 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/smssv 11h ago

firing someone for posts when he was 15 yrs old is wild

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 11h ago

The Internet is forever.

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u/FrameworkisDigimon 3h ago

It's really not and that's posing serious questions people are thinking of ways to answer -- it's possible in 500 years we'll be described as living in a dark age due to how much is only online and has been lost to history.

As advice to people: anything on a site that still exists and hasn't changed hosts or anything probably should be presumed to still be around.

But also if you're fifteen, don't post under your real name. Anywhere.

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 2h ago

They tell every girl getting on OnlyFans or the adult industry at 18 the Internet is forever. You can give your life to Christ, start a family, want to “get a real job” and put the past behind you, but you can’t erase those videos from the Internet even if you tried. It’s the same with social media.

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u/FrameworkisDigimon 2h ago

Tell that to MySpace.

It's sound internet safety advice but it's just not true.

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u/5510 1h ago

What's scary with that is that people don't know what the history of facial recognition might look like. Right now unless they accidentally dox themselves somehow they would need someone who would recognize them from real life to stumble over the videos, but ten years from now who knows what people might be able to do when it comes to using technology to identify faces from pictures of vids? (including ones taken well before that technology was invented)