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YouTube Temporarily Suspends the LAPD
- jeffbee 3y agoQuality journalism here. Uncritically repost cop tweets. No other sources. If this is your technique and you believe yourself to be a civil rights activist, you have made a mistake somewhere.
- colpabar 3y agoI distrust the police as much as the next guy, but what else is there to report? What other sources are there? Youtube, one of the giant platforms that is notorious for being horrible at communicating with users?
- jeffbee 3y agoThey could have contacted anyone else to see if cops posting snuff films on YouTube is widely seen as a civil liberties issue. They could have contacted the victim, victims' rights advocates in Los Angeles, other police departments to find out if they routinely, or ever, post videos of violent crimes, or if they instead choose to post the clearest still image of the people of interest.
- hentrep 3y agoDiscussed here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38054531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38054531