Archivists have saved and uploaded copies of the 60 Minutes episode new CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss ordered be shelved as a torrent and multiple file sharing sites after an international distributor aired the episode.
The moves show how difficult it may be for CBS to stop the episode, which focused on the experience of Venezuelans deported to El Salvadorian mega prison CECOT, from spreading across the internet. Bari Weiss stopped the episode from being released Sunday even after the episode was reviewed and checked multiple times by the news outlet, according to an email CBS correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi sent to her colleagues.
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Yes, but also… this is a kinda unique variation in that it wasn’t already public when they tried to kill it.
… and, I’m not sure who “archivists” might refer to but I suspect that whoever they are may have undertaken significant risk.
The article says it was released online and if you were in Canada you could watch it. Also it doesn’t say it here but another news source said the week prior it was advertised through commercials, ads, and online that it would be airing on so and so date and time.
Once I saw who stopped it, I kept thinking back to John Oliver’s episode on her a few months ago and thought wow that didnt take long.
If it was posted
in Canadaanywhere it was posted everywhere. Thus is the nature of the internet.Sounds like an “international distributor” aired the episode, so it was already public, at least in whatever country it aired in. The only risk they took is perhaps getting their “international distribution” contract cancelled.
If it aired publicly, and nobody involved in the distribution is involved in the “archiving”, there may be very little that can be done about it, short of sending the USS Trump to carpetbomb their country.
Valid point, but maybe a little less unique than it seems, at least if you look at the original Barbra Streisand situation. The photo of her house was originally so obscure and hidden that realistically essentially nobody had ever seen it, until she sued the photographer to have it removed. While it was technically “publicly available” before that it was in such an obscure dataset of coastal erosion examples that it had only been downloaded 6 times, which in terms of being “public on the internet”, effectively rounds down to zero.
And those 6 times it were said to be her lawyer who viewed them.
I believe the archivists are data hoarders aka pirates.
And so they’re outside the USA.
Actually since my comment it’s become clear that the show was aired in canada.
When I posted that comment it sounded like the show had been canned but someone on the production team had leaked it.