LimeWire Re-Emerges In Online Rush To Share Pulled '60 Minutes' Segment (arstechnica.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/12/23/222221/limewire-re-emerges-in-online-rush-to-share-pulled-60-minutes-segment
- Source link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/yo-what-limewire-re-emerges-in-online-rush-to-share-pulled-60-minutes-segment/
> CBS cannot contain the online spread of a "60 Minutes" segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, "Inside CECOT," featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism. "Welcome to hell," one former inmate was told upon arriving, the segment reported, while also highlighting a clip of Donald Trump praising CECOT and its leadership for "great facilities, very strong facilities, and they don't play games."
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> Weiss controversially pulled the segment on Monday, claiming it could not air in the US because it lacked critical voices, as no Trump officials were interviewed. She claimed that the segment "did not advance the ball" and merely echoed others' reporting, NBC News [1]reported . Her plan was to air the segment when it was "ready," insisting that holding stories "for whatever reason" happens "every day in every newsroom." But Weiss apparently did not realize that the "Inside CECOT" would still stream in Canada, giving the public a chance to view the segment as reporters had intended.
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> Critics accusing CBS of censoring the story quickly shared the segment online Monday after discovering that it was available on the Global TV app. Using a VPN to connect to the app with a Canadian IP address was all it took to override Weiss' block in the US, as 404 Media [2]reported the segment was uploaded to "to a variety of file sharing sites and services, including iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent," [3]including on the recently revived file-sharing service LimeWire . It's currently also available to stream [4]on the Internet Archive , where one reviewer largely summed up the public's response so far, writing, "cannot believe this was pulled, not a dang thing wrong with this segment except it shows truth."
"Yo what," [5]joked Reddit user Howzitgoin, highlighting only the word "LimeWire." Another user [6]responded , "man, who knew my nostalgia prof pic would become relevant again, WTF."
"Bringing back LimeWire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit," a Bluesky user [7]wrote .
"We need a champion against the darkness," a Reddit commenter [8]echoed . "I side with LimeWire."
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cbs-news-el-salvador-cecot-prison-sharyn-alfonsi-bari-weiss-rcna250618
[2] https://www.404media.co/archivists-posted-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment-bari-weiss-killed/
[3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/yo-what-limewire-re-emerges-in-online-rush-to-share-pulled-60-minutes-segment/
[4] https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1ptdpxx/segment_cbs_news_pulled_from_60_minutes_by_the/
[6] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1ptdpxx/comment/nvgnmkl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[7] https://bsky.app/profile/chadstanton.blacksky.app/post/3mamkrwra4226
[8] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1ptdpxx/comment/nvgko2z/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
It's in several places (Score:3)
As of 2025-12-23 at 22:14 UTC, it's up at [1]The Internet Archive [archive.org] and on [2]YouTube [youtube.com].
Do the world a favor and sit a Republican down to watch it. And download a copy for data retention purposes.
[1] https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiehEMlNiCI
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Also available at [1]https://transfer.it/t/WRv9jJ91wTKK [transfer.it]
[1] https://transfer.it/t/WRv9jJ91wTKK
Bari Weiss, meet ... (Score:2)
Barbra Streisand.
I am quite sure far more people have viewed the piece than if it had not been pulled.
I Watched It (Score:2)
What a nothing-burger.
I suspect that CBS pulled it because of its triteness. I saw absolutely nothing worthy of attempting to "cover up".
[1]https://archive.org/details/60... [archive.org]
The Lime Wire jokes were nostalgically humorous.
[1] https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
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I’ll try and simplify this in terms you can understand.
Imagine if Obama did this same thing to white people.
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Are those white people in the United States illegally? Did they commit a federal crime by crossing the U.S. border illegally and thereby became the legal definition of a criminal? Then I'd have no problem with it.
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Many Indigenous Americans think all white people are in the USA illegally, and they have a pretty good point.
The only people who are going to bother seeking it (Score:2)
out and watching it have already made up their mind and will simply use it for confirmation bias, which it will provide amply.
The "balance myth" (Score:4, Informative)
This really is the endpoint of the whole "balance" bullshit myth. Good journalism is never about "balance". its about truth. The truth is inherently biased, towards truth. When I did journalism school (Before I moved into sciences I did a journalism degree first), this was drilled into us. Don't look for approval, dont look for telling "all sides of the story", look for the truth, even if the truth makes the powerful angry.
It doesn't *matter* what your political bias is , and to be clear EVERYONE has a political bias. What matters is, are the facts. Theres of course times when you need to hold your tounge. You dont snitch on sources. You never death knock (try to beat the cops to tell a family whos loved one just died the news to capture the reaction, its an evil practice, and usually banned by news agencies), and you never defame (less banned, alas). You refrain from naming underage or vunerable victims. But above all, tell the fucking truth.
Balance is ass. Putting on a climate change denier to "balance" as a science doesnt increase the balance, it just reduces the truth. And getting a trump official to make excuses for human rights violations doesnt reduce the human rights violations, it just spreads bullshit.
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[1]False balance [wikipedia.org] or both sides, its one of the problems the US has had with climate change where cranks and industry shills are given the same exposure as real science.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
I'll say the same thing i was saying 20 years ago (Score:2)
Why Limewire? Shareaza is right there on SourceForge and comes with pre-compiled clean binaries. No need to try and hack the original adware-laden LimeWire client or use some "Pirate Edition" compiled by who knows who. And yes, both Shareaza and Limewire connect to the same gnutella network.
The people who need to see it. (Score:2)
1: Won't see it.
2: Couldn't care less about immigrants anyway. They don't care they are tortured.They don't care they are innocent. MAGA people will feel no shame about this. Cruelty is the point of sadopopulism. They think it makes make them tough. They do not confess about it, they brag about it.
That said, the people leaking this are the beginning of the resistance. Like the people who probably on purpose used an inefficient method to censor the Epstein files. The "little hands" must be disgusted and do w
The people who need to see it won't (Score:2)
The people that needed to see this are the Fox News Grandpas still watch 60 minutes on TV. They are not going to navigate LimeWire or even YouTube to find a copy of it and watch it. So the money spent taking over CBS was money well spent.
90% of America media is owned by billionaires. If you find yourself agreeing with what you see in the news consistently then you need to start thinking about what that means. If you think billionaires are your friend you need to take a step back and reevaluate things
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According to Bari, she pulled it because it merely duplicates stories ran by two other networks, months ago. She told her people that if they wanted to run it, it needed something new, something different. I've never been in charge of a news department, but that seems like an entirely reasonable stance to take. Re-running your competitors' story months later isn't exactly "new"s.
I can assure you that Fox News Grandpas are fully aware of CECOT. They overwhelmingly approve and wonder what it would take to