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But the Occupiers, who tended to be young, white, and middle-to upper-middle-class, knew social media like few other demographics. They knew how to live-stream
by merraksh 13y ago
But the Occupiers, who tended to be young, white, and middle-to upper-middle-class, knew social media like few other demographics. They knew how to live-stream video directly to the Internet. They all had smart phones, so police couldn’t suppress incriminating video by confiscating one or two or ten phones—someone was bound to have video of not only the original incident but also of police trying to confiscate phones to cover it up.
Looks like another good use of Google glasses, if used by protesters en masse.
- spiritplumber 13y agoThat's great, but terabytes of video from multiple camera angles don't help much if all the do is cause an internal investigation that never finds anything wrong.
- oftenwrong 13y agoThe US police have already learned! I have already seen articles about cell service being suspended to stifle protests. For example: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/barts-cell-phone-shutdown-one-year-later https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/barts-cell-phone-shutd...
- merraksh 13y agoHmmm, then they'll need to use local wifis.