Death_Equity@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you were paying attention during the George Floyd protests; streamers were harassed, assaulted, doxed, stalked, and shut out from protests because they were creating evidence that was used to prosecute protesters doing crime.
So you are now less likely to find a live protest stream where anything happens because they will upload clips or edited videos so they can show the narrative devoid of identifiable protesters doing crime.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Yeah I saw some streamers get in to trouble with some specific groups of protestors for that reason, but didn’t see it very often on the streams I was watching. I also listened to some interviews with Portland protestors on the Uprising podcast who felt that was a bit excessive, so didn’t think it was particularly widespread.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 2 days ago
During that whole event, I was up watching every stream that was available until they cut and went home. I was following all of their twitters and monitoring twitter in general.
I can tell you that what I said is accurate with certainty. There were streamers that would end when the “night shift” took over protesting because it was “too dangerous to stream”, when a week prior they were welcome. The ones that lasted the longest were filming their face or the ground and eventually they gave up because they were getting confronted or worse.
Their presence was said to “endanger” protesters because the police were watching along with everybody else. The police would roll up out of nowhere and start grabbing up people around the streamers, because they used the streams to pinpoint locations.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It wasn’t my intent to argue with your experience, it just wasn’t the impression I came away with.