Watch CECOT
Hours before airing, 60-minutes redacted its coverage of U.S. treatment of “detained” immigrants. They forgot to cancel it on streaming services to Canada though, and some quick-thinking Canadian filmed his TV and posted it online. Within an hour it was popping up — then getting redacted — across the internet. Watch what they try to hide.
How to do it:
Our government took these actions in our name, so it is our responsibility to witness them. Don’t turn away from the horror. Choose your time, or watch with a friend, but do watch what we’ve done. Additionally, if CBS’s self-censorship backfires with vastly more viewings, the government may have to rethink this kind or pressure. Fascism relies on information control. An interconnected world gives us a window.
\There are dozens of news articles and hundreds of blog posts with links to various versions of the video. Paramount is hitting them with takedown notices at full-speed but there’s one reliable source that’s likely to stand: the Internet Archive. They are at least partially protected legally because they merely document content, an activity at least partially protected from copyright notices. They also have lawyers and infrastructure designed to resist pressure to scrub the web.
Why it matters where you watch:
Any time something captures internet attention, the trolls quickly swarm. These days that means AI content, whether it’s a faked version of the video to evade copyright notices, or a real version on a site with malign intent. When you search for something popular, it is particularly important to trust the links you click, so check reliable, non-profit options like the Internet Archive first.
