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Remembering #January6th investigating today.
The blows, bangs, yells and screams are still seared into me...
But so is a deep appreciation for the tenacious volunteers that subjected themselves to the same awful footage, day after day...
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2/ Crowdsourcing around #January6th helped create a historically unprecedented ecosystem of public accountability.
In the critical first days and weeks, when little felt certain, it seemed like one of our best chances to help discourage a violent repeat at the inauguration.
3/ The #January6th crowdsourcing quickly began showing the whole world who had participated in the #CapitolInsurrection.
It also it kept surfacing steady stream of images and footage. This helped frustrate the many early cynical efforts to minimize the event & rewrite history.
4/ Arresting footage like this, from @rstevensbrody, and the work of so many other journalists was critical to highlighting the harm, and preserving the historical memory of the day.pic.twitter.com/Omdva2SiUS
5/ Over time, volunteer groups matured techniques & ethics, and focused on different areas and questions. Their findings were critical to visual investigations from traditional media about the day. Meanwhile, other groups focused on creating searchable media repositories.
6/ Still today, much of what the public knows about #January6th can be linked to the outputs of volunteer efforts, and collaborations with traditional media.
Many harm-doers faced accountability because of them, too
7/ A year on, I see another contribution of #January6th volunteer projects: they collected and preserved the historical record.
The fruits of this effort will be primary sources for future generations of historians making sense of this dark period for our democracy.
8/ Crowdsourcing has risks, too, that we are still understanding. It was especially interesting to see volunteer efforts self-imposing norms to address them. Like rules to never disclose names of people who hadn't been confirmed by an indictment, or traditional media reporting.
HEROES all of you!
Thank you!!
Truthfully waiting for a cogent argument as to why surveillance and doxxing is deemed as inappropriate for BLM/Antifa rallies/protests/riots. I've been an avid supporter of CL and the work that they do there, but I can't make heads of the double standard. Open to being wrong.
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John Scott-Railton
