Comments on: police provocateurs http://hughmcguire.net/2007/08/25/police-provocateurs/ at the intersection of technology, philosophy, and politics (and some other things). Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:33:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Hugh http://hughmcguire.net/2007/08/25/police-provocateurs/#comment-1169 Hugh Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:14:53 +0000 http://hughmcguire.net/2007/08/25/police-provocateurs/#comment-1169 yup. i've heard tons of these kinds of stories for years, but in the mainstream people figure just: violent anarchist protestors cause trouble, police overreact. shrug. the story never got out. and it's much worse than that obviously, so police are being watched now - and the videos will get out. to the extent that people can hang onto their cameras ... but where before there might have been 5 cameras, there are probably now 50 + access to a distribution platform. so...interesting to see how this plays out. yup. i’ve heard tons of these kinds of stories for years, but in the mainstream people figure just: violent anarchist protestors cause trouble, police overreact. shrug. the story never got out.

and it’s much worse than that obviously, so police are being watched now - and the videos will get out. to the extent that people can hang onto their cameras … but where before there might have been 5 cameras, there are probably now 50 + access to a distribution platform. so…interesting to see how this plays out.

]]> By: Shawna Nelles http://hughmcguire.net/2007/08/25/police-provocateurs/#comment-1168 Shawna Nelles Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:39:47 +0000 http://hughmcguire.net/2007/08/25/police-provocateurs/#comment-1168 This kind of thing has been going on for a while, I guess the police are going to have to rethink their tactics with all this mass reaching media in the hands of the people. Nice to see it finally gets out. I don't think people ever really believed me when I'd tell my stories of this kind of thing happening in QC FTAA. Now they might :) more on flickr.. thought this was funny: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliep/1206638928/ This kind of thing has been going on for a while, I guess the police are going to have to rethink their tactics with all this mass reaching media in the hands of the people. Nice to see it finally gets out. I don’t think people ever really believed me when I’d tell my stories of this kind of thing happening in QC FTAA. Now they might :)

more on flickr.. thought this was funny:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliep/1206638928/

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