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The vice president attended the opening ceremony in Milan, where people also protested the presence of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the Winter Olympics.

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[-] kowcop@aussie.zone 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

ICE providing security for American politicians in another country? Don’t they have a dedicated security group called the Secret service or something like that?

[-] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 17 points 1 month ago

Yeah but the party prefers their brown shirts.

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Most countries send a policing presence to major international sporting tournaments.

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[-] homes@piefed.world 25 points 1 month ago

How adorable! It’s all the fuck over YouTube

[-] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Yes but if the presenters didn't mention it, I could not detect boos from the video alone.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iZRAa4fKZ3U

I have noticed this often when someone gets booed. Pretty obvious when you are there but not on video. As an audio nerd it has me perplexed.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 8 points 1 month ago

I also think they were ready for that and they masked it live. It doesn't make any sense for the presenters to mention the booing if you can't even hear it in the recording. It must have been very loud.

[-] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't know how one would mask it Maybe the crowd is totally overdubbed. I cannot find phone recordings. Are all phone uploads of the event being rejected by YouTube?

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[-] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's all about mic placement. Ive had the good fortune to play sports on live tv in front of large crowds a good amount and it's not uncommon at all for the crowd sound on the broadcast to be way different than in person. That being said, I'd bet there's a different broadcast from a different country where you can totally hear the boos.

[-] homes@piefed.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If only there hadn’t been almost 300 years of testimony and evidence of the horror…

If you’re alive now, you won’t be for much longer

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago

Everyone hates you Vance. They hate you because you are dumb and you suck and you are a bad person.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 1 month ago

The world is Michael Scott and Vance is Toby

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

I don't know that he's dumb, but that makes him even worse.

[-] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He’s not dumb. Oh my oh my the contrast. He sure as hell ain’t wise either.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

hes just an empty puppet to be used by thiel.

[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

and a couch fucker

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[-] waggz@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago

What was it musk said? something about censorship by tyrants?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 month ago
[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

happy happy cake daaaaay!

[-] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Do we do cake day comments on lemmy? Whatever. Happy cake day!

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Probably DMCA. The Olympic committee is very jealous and very aggressive. They control all recordings strictly.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

They don't control my tivo recordings.

Which is why everyone should oppose ATSC 3.0.

With ATSC 3.0, TV stations can literally insert ads overlayed on screen at any point.

They can use your tv's smart functions to literally track your behavior.

They can refuse to allow you to record tv stations entirely, or just kndividual shows.

They can delete shows without your consent. They can block you from watching shows. They can make OTA tv programing pay per view.

I'm not saying they ARE doing this, or are planning it, but they CAN. And if capitalism has taught me anything it's "fuck you, pay us, and then pay us again, and fuck you again".

See......humans are stupid. We could all be living in lush rich forests, having sex in bright sunny fields, with no cares in the world.

Instead, we all have jobs, and make ourselves slaves to them. We hand over control of all aspects of our lives to corporations.

Instead of utopia, we live in a parking lot jungle. Where the profits for paid parking are more important than affordable housing, and rent control.

And it all rolls downhill. Even television is trying its hand at enshitification. Don't buy a smart tv. Don't buy ATSC 3.0 anything. Tell these fuckers to fuck off!

[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

TiVo.. now that's a name I haven't heard in a long long time. they still around?

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I bought lifetime subscription 10+ years ago. It still updates the guide, but they stopped selling hardware.

Which is a shame. I like Tivo.

[-] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I always have my "smart" TV disconnected from internet, and I run my media viewing through the steam deck in desktop mode, but any Linux computer will work just as fine. Then I employ some high sea villainy and boom, set to coast.

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago

A protector is a good non-enshittified alternative to a smart TV

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[-] waggz@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

ianal but I'm pretty sure dmca wouldn't apply to free use exceptions if needed reporting and commentary

[-] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Problem is that fair use doesn't prevent a dmca takedown. It doesn't really matter until you go to court and prove it, unfortunately. These takedowns are functioning exactly as designed, allowing for easy corporate censorship with minimal repercussions for abuse.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

No I'm sorry this is strictly on NBC and American fragility. Streams of the Olympics in all other countries didn't mess with audio. I heard Israel being booed as well as America.

[-] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I've seen NBC edited out the boos on their broadcast

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

So sad the regime needs to protect its citizens from its international perception via media censorship. Very North Korea.

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[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

NBC are the only broadcaster to take their own full camera setup so they can focus on American competitors. They don’t have quite have the Olympic spirit.

[-] homes@piefed.world 2 points 1 month ago

You know, I just read that about an hour ago, but I can’t seem to find that version of the video. All the versions I see are the ones with all the boos and jeers, lol.

Someone’s algorithm needs a tweak…

[-] itistime@infosec.pub 12 points 1 month ago

Ask yourselves, why do officials need ICE protection when they have the Secret Service?

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

They’re there to assist policing American fans, not to protect officials.

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[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

I thought comedy was legal now? Video sure gave me a laugh.

Wish that shit platform would support free speech and not just csam.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 5 points 1 month ago

The video from the TV station must be copyrighted, but about everybody else's video from the audience?

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

People should just upload it (slightly cut or stretched) again and again. And again.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Nitecore edit (S L O W E D + R E V E R B)

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[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Post it on Mastodon and here instead.

The REAL free speech platforms.

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[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Love the Streisand effect. I had no idea there was footage of this cabbage patch chimp getting booed at the Olympics until they blocked it 😆

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

In Canada we don't censor that sort of stuff so watching the CBC stream was funny. All applause then the couch pest showed up and the entire stadium mood changed. Americans truly don't realize they are jokes outside of their country.

[-] crash_thepose@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

No we definitely know and also consider ourselves jokes

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Like Israel at Eurovision. They had all the anti-booing on the streams, but some of it was still slipping through and Graham was like "I don't know what you can all hear at home, but this definitely an energetic reception" 😆

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[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Streisand the fucking thing.

The copyright doesn't apply to the event of Vance being booed itself, it applies to that specific video recording of it. Sure the video creator is a dick for getting it taken down, but they're within their legal rights to.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Copyright is a compromise, not an absolute. It has all kinds of provisions for things like commentary, public interest etc which generally speaking does allow short clips of a greater work.

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[-] eleison@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Wasn‘t he complaining last year in Germany about how in Europe free speech was under attack? I am certain he will criticise Musk the same now, right? Right?

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