CBS News says it’s issuing takedown orders for a shelved “60 Minutes” segment after it was posted on Global TV’s app on Monday and then spread online.
A representative for the network says its Canadian broadcast partner had “mistakenly published” the segment, dubbed “Inside CECOT,” after CBS News decided to delay it for a future broadcast.
Though Global has since removed the episode, the segment has been shared widely on social media.
I feel like the biggest problem in getting people to react to torture is that it’s so unrelatable.
I think a lot of people hear “stress positions”, “24 hour lights”, “pitch blackness”, and they think, ‘Well I’ve been tired before. I’ve been stuck in a hot airplane with the lights too bright. I’ve been in the dark before, these are minor discomforts.’
And I don’t think they understand that the point of all torture is to induce suffering. If the people doing this aren’t slicing someone’s body parts off with hot knives, it’s because you can get the same effect by telling someone to kneel on the ground and not letting them up for a full day, but there’s less mess.
It makes me really sad that I think people are often able to get away with torture because a key part of modern torture has been finding techniques that minimize visual signs of damage and have no similarity to things most people have experienced, and thus sound benign.
Not mentioned in all of this is that torture is – to many people’s surprise – actually very damaging for torturers too. The prison guards at this place are probably at an extremely elevated risk of intimate partner violence and suicide.
Fuck all it, especially weak-ass complicity in this fascist bullshit.
Remember all the apologists who defended waterboarding?
Can you blame people? We’ve had at minimum of 4 decades of Hollywood (over-)dramatization on what torture and espionage should look like. Who is to say that wasn’t done on purpose?
the segment has been shared widely on social media
Not widely enough.
https://files.catbox.moe/4kv1gt.mp4
Watch it Right Here in the Comment
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- https://www.threads.com/@erikveland/post/DSl4-P8iWfp
- https://www.thereset.news/p/breaking-heres-the-60-minutes-segment
Even if they do eventually air it, it would be enlightening to play “spot the difference” between what they didn’t want to air and what they finally do. My guess would be CBS doing something like
sed s/Trump/Biden/gto the script.Thanks for posting other sources besides Catbox. Those links have never worked for me.
“Between firing people who criticise Trump or refusing to acknowledge his mental decline, it’s clear that the people at the top of U.S. media are complicit in whitewashing the crimes of the Trump regime,” said media watchdog Kurt Oyj. “By contrast the people in charge of Canadian media are just, like, pretty checked out.”
They’re only drawing more and more attention to it.
Could that be our Canadians brothers point? They are our ally after all.
I think snotflicker means the subsequent take down request. Not CBC airing it.
It was Global, not CBC
What even is there in that video?
Not much we don’t already know, but confirmation is important, spreading the information further is important, and the fact that it makes the administration mad is important.
Barbara Streisand would like a word.
This is like the fuck up with redacting the Epstein files.
“Oops! Sorry!”
I’m still astonished people think these events are screw ups and not intentional.
Maybe. What better form of protest than an insider leaking sensitive information?
“Oops”
The correct term is “Sorry”.
Very cute. I already have it on my RAID array. Take me down.
