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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 06:09 PM Aug 2014

Anonymous posts tapes of Ferguson police calls....Youtube

Anonymous claims it has obtained and published audio of St. Louis County, Mo., police dispatch tapes from Aug. 9, which was the date Michael Brown was fatally shot by an officer.
These tapes will be key to any investigation.

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Go Vols

(5,902 posts)
1. Not sure what this means
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 06:19 PM
Aug 2014
MrAzdaz
1 hour ago (edited)

Yeah the NSA called in favor and had youtube "view block" this to stop it going viral.You dont see them view blocking Aria Grande videos for instance.Or Niki Minaj videos,Ones which are quite obviously botted the fuck up.The real view count is probably in the thousands but yet they read well into the millions.


the view counter is stuck at 301+ viewers while there are currently over 400 likes.
 

bigwillq

(72,790 posts)
2. The view counter usually stays at 301+ views
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 06:22 PM
Aug 2014

for the first day when a new video is posted that gets a lot of hits.

I've seen this happen with music videos, example Lady Gaga. The first day is normally always 301+ views even though you know like 1 million watched. Not sure why it does that.

DanTex

(20,709 posts)
6. I've read that the reason it does that is because after 300 views
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 06:34 PM
Aug 2014

YouTube starts verifying views to make sure they are legit and not just one person trying to pump up the view count, so it takes longer for the views to register.

chrisa

(4,524 posts)
3. That's because the view counter takes a while to refresh. Every YouTube video does that when it has
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 06:26 PM
Aug 2014

a lot of views in a very short time.

DanTex

(20,709 posts)
4. The view counter gets stuck at 301 for a while because...
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 06:33 PM
Aug 2014

...after 300 views YouTube starts trying to verify that views are legitimate, in order to make view counts accurate and for example prevent people from pumping up the view counts on their own videos. This takes a little longer than just the straight number of clicks which is used for the first 300, so that's why it gets stuck at 300.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
9. anonymous made some...promises..to the Ferguson PD, in this video:
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 12:09 AM
Aug 2014

in which they said this:
To the Ferguson Police Department and any other jurisdictions who are deployed to the protests: we are watching you very closely. If you abuse, harass - or harm in any way the protesters in Ferguson we will take every web based asset of your departments and governments off line.
That is not a threat, it is a promise.
Attacking the protesters will result in
the release of personal information on every single member of the Ferguson Police Department, as well as any other jurisdiction that participates in the abuse of this States own law

. We will seize all your databases and E-Mail spools and dump them on the Internet.
This is your first and last warning.

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