[liberationtech] They Used Smartphone Cameras to Record Police Brutality—and Change History

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On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 10:02 AM hans christian voigt <sozwiss at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > Am 15.06.2020 um 12:22 schrieb grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> What may be most striking about the George Floyd video is not that it
> was
> >> recorded, but that it was so very widely (and intensively) disseminated
> by
> >> those legacy media.
> >
> > TV and media are rarely permitted to show people getting shot,
> > bloodsport violence, any visible actual point of death, etc.
>
>
> You seem to have some deeper insight. I wonder what TV and media you are
> referring to exactly, US, worldwide, in general or some specific media
> outlets?
> Could you point out the laws restricting that and how do you then get
> permission granted like in the case of the George Floyd video?
>

When airing a video is counter to the interests of local or international
authorities or local or international organized crime, people likely
prevent it from spreading due to fear for their wellbeing, not because of
laws.

Imagine being a billionaire and somebody videotaping you murdering
someone.  You would use all the resources at your disposal to prevent that
video from getting anywhere.

> In regard, Floyd met the same parameters as wrestling match might.
> > More remarkable to have made it past some of media's masters,
> > even if only a miscalculation.
> > If you want to see some real violence of Power, YouTube used
> > to carry some of it till they sold out to Censorship.
> > Now you must search the internet and overlay networks.
> > Or just watch any footage of war, homeless, hungry, infirm,
> > courts, prison systems, lawmaking bodies, elections,
> > politicians, and their police, etc.
> >
> > Another reason a few made TV is they're in desperate
> > competition with Alternative Internet Media, in effect
> > they must air some more things to remain relevant,
> > thus more willing to risk permission/master.
> >
> >> Now consider the inverse: are there similar videos out there that
> remained
> >> unknown?  Are there other videos of a similar nature (police violence
> >> against African Americans) that received less attention, i.e. less
> >> dissemination?  Perhaps the problem is actually bigger than we know.
> >
> > Don't let media and masters spin and divert you (against each other)...
> > likely less about police against Black, more likely problem about
> > Power against everyone... of which the former is one large result.
> > There are thousands of videos of the latter that media never
> disseminated,
> > it doesn't fit their [perhaps temporarily former] narratives,
> > cashflows, masters.
> > Defeating latter stops former too, whereas just former does little to
> latter.
>

My limited experience in activist circles is that the situation can get
much worse for oppressed minority groups, simply because fewer people
defend them and more people have an axe to grind based simply on their
appearance.  There's also the sex trade (a recent expose of a police
department during this George Floyd stuff showed most rape testing kits had
been discretely disposed of without use).

Regardless, we need ways to change the preservation, communication, and
distribution of information situations.  We also need ways to show people
who are used to being unable to reach out, that it can be made possible.

>
> >> The control of dissemination is probably the biggest issue we face
> today in
> >> liberation technology.
> >
> > Further behind is wide index search and syndication API across
> > the extant and coming distributed overlay media services.
> >
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