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'No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed': Video From Olympics Blocked on X
(www.commondreams.org)
How adorable! It’s all the fuck over YouTube
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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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.
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.
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?
It's not hard to mask them, just lower the microphones from the audience or play something else instead
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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's being said, I'd bet there's a different broadcast from a different country where you can totally hear the boos.
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What was it musk said? something about censorship by tyrants?
Probably DMCA. The Olympic committee is very jealous and very aggressive. They control all recordings strictly.
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!
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.
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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?
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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 😆
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.
We do.
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" 😆
Everyone hates you Vance. They hate you because you are dumb and you suck and you are a bad person.
I don't know that he's dumb, but that makes him even worse.
He’s not dumb. Oh my oh my the contrast. He sure as hell ain’t wise either.
The world is Michael Scott and Vance is Toby
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Post it on Mastodon and here instead.
The REAL free speech platforms.
Is that enough? Isn't there only like 11 million on mastadon?
You can also copy the Mastodon/Lemmy link to Twitter and Bluesky, I guess.
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I've seen NBC edited out the boos on their broadcast
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…
So sad the regime needs to protect its citizens from its international perception via media censorship. Very North Korea.
Eurovision did the same.
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Ask yourselves, why do officials need ICE protection when they have the Secret Service?
They’re there to assist policing American fans, not to protect officials.
Because the US didn't have enough actual police officers they could bring?
Because the police is employed by states and the country. ICE is their private army, and obeys their master.
No difference than officers having red armbands in the 1930's.
I thought comedy was legal now? Video sure gave me a laugh.
Wish that shit platform would support free speech and not just csam.
Stop using Musk's products.
People should just upload it (slightly cut or stretched) again and again. And again.
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.
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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Streisand the fucking thing.
Fuck you NBC.
Blocked on X...LOL! Fuck Leon Hitler and every time he cries about censorship.
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?
The video from the TV station must be copyrighted, but about everybody else's video from the audience?
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