I noticed that anything negative about the rioters did not stay around long.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who has noticed this. I do believe the gov't and 'responding agencies' have developed a playbook to counter on-the ground 'freelance' coverage and have been slowly perfecting it with each act of 'domestic unrest' From the OWS protest through to Baltimore.

I noticed with the Boston lockdown, there was a lot of avenues of information available to digest- multiple night-long video streams, twitters, 2 different police radio streams, and countless forums. When Ferguson came around, there was a LOT less immediate reporting available, but still enough to where you could get an honest feel for what was going on during the protests and later the riots. With Baltimore, there was virtually none of that. I had managed to find 1 'stream' of the protests, which was only 3hrs and had been pre-recorded. I managed to find 4 'streams' for the riots, but they too were all pre-recorded and none more than a few hours long. With each event, it's as if little-by-little, TPTB fine-tune their information-gathering apparatus to prevent and circumvent 'undesirable' information getting out, to the point of brute-forcing. Remember that guy streaming from Ferguson who had his phone 'stolen' while streaming? Maybe that wasn't such a 'random act of looting' as it was 'intentional information control'.

What I find incredibly peculiar about the whole Baltimore kerfuffle: A large amount of high-school kids are corralled into one location, against their will, and prevented from going home by riot-ready police. I was always told they were this techno-crazy market that can't stop taking pictures of every binality around them. So why is there not a flood of pictures from this group of kids? Were they somehow prevented from utilizing their phones cameras ? Not to say that specific technology was utilized, but perhaps something else was. As I said, I'm just dumbfounded by the lack of photos from this incident.

The whole thing, the protests and the riots, reek of on-the-ground manipulation and control of information.

StingRay, FTW!

I was waiting to see if anyone else noticed the absolute desolate coverage of what could be seen as a catalytic point... But theres nothing. So are they StingRay-ing all that data and removing it?

Nah, McReddit was blocked from work and I hardly go there from home (or mobile) because of the blatantly obvious forced perspective. I'll just cut out the Pao-middleman, stop giving them my pageviews and ad revenue (even though I was using AdBlock) and go straight to CNN or FOX if I want McReddit level information.

I do miss /r/fatlogic though - that shit was pretty funny.

The internet is getting smaller...They killed Grooveshark. I know it's minor compared to Baltimore, but the general idea is that the frame of mankind's mind is being put through the addle with all the avenues of data processing being constrained to certain narratives.

It can't just be me who's noticed the internet feeling smaller.

you may be right, but I find an increasing number of people either don't give a shit, or don't think they can make a change.

You are right, if the resolution does not make sense (like the he tried to break his own neck story...) people should and will get pissed off. But if regular people cannot see the action, they are less likely to react. (break out the pitchforks)

I just noticed a serious lack of real citizens reporting on twitter, vine, livestream, and even youtube compared to last time. I was posting to see if people noticed any active censorship or network problems that would explain it.