Elizabeth Lopatto, writing at The Verge:
60 Minutes had already begun promoting the now-censored segment
online. Because it was pulled so late, it seems that CBS missed at
least one platform for distribution: Canada’s Global TV. Some
people used a VPN to watch it; at least one person recorded it,
distributing it through an iCloud account.The segment, which has been reviewed by The Verge, is a little shy
of 14 minutes long. It features video of men, chained and bent
double, being “paraded in front of cameras, pushed onto buses, and
delivered to CECOT,” according to the segment’s narration. One
former detainee, who CBS met in Colombia, said he was told he was
“the living dead” at CECOT. After trying to seek asylum in the US,
he says he was detained by customs and held for 6 months before
being deported. He described horrific conditions at the prison,
saying he was beaten until he bled and that he was thrown into a
wall so hard he broke one of his teeth. He also described sexual
assault by the guards. Another interviewed former detainee
described what can only be called torture: being forced to kneel
for 24 hours, and being put in a dark room, where they were beaten
if they moved from the stress position. […]Anyway, best of luck to Weiss in playing DMCA whack-a-mole with
the video of the story. The segment lives as online samizdat now.
Thanks to Weiss’ censorship, it may very well wind up being the
most-talked-about CBS News story this year.
There are a bunch of copies on social media, but most are video of the TV broadcast in Canada shot from an iPhone. The Internet Archive, however, has a clean copy that’s a direct screen recording. Watch for yourself.
