1y ago

YouTube Livestreamers Made Money ‘Hunting’ for Migrants Along the US Border

www.wired.com

Even while in the middle of harassing the migrants, the livestreamers could still be heard thanking those who were sending them money via YouTube’s Super Chat function or through other platforms like Venmo and the Christian-aligned crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. In one situation, while Fulfer was shouting at migrants in Arizona telling them to go home, he stopped briefly to call out a supporter who had sent him $50 on Venmo.

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YouTube doesn't care how or why you make money as long as they make money too.
If they could get away with legally showing child porn, they would.
- How could they legally show porn and ensure kids wouldn't see it? Because I guarantee you that's why they don't allow it.
- If they could get away with legally showing child porn, they would.
  Only if they want to face another advertiser revolt.
  And, as you said, thwy want to make money. Passing off their advertisers is counterproductive to that goal.
  
  True, I should have said that if they could legally get away with it and knew they wouldn't lose advertisers.
Christian aligned site that doesn't seem to mind when people don't treat the sojourner as their own.
- Yeah, but that's in the old testament so it doesn't count /s
Should just arrest these idjits instead.
- for what crime?
  
  Harassment.
  Did you not read the article?
Why can't the First Amendment auditors follow those miserable fucks ?
“We’re illegal hunters,” Yarbery told a store clerk while livestreaming at a Subway sandwich counter in Jacumba Hot Springs. “I’ve hunted a lot in my life, but I’ve never actually hunted people, and that’s what we’re doing now.”
I'm learning about mens rea and this is all I can think of.
Fuck these people.
This is a big ol witch hunt nothing burger intended for feel bads to just make you mad.
After the livestreamers left Texas, they went to Sasabe in Arizona and a migrant camp run by No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization that provides support for migrants crossing the border.
Isn't that a criminal trafficking organization?
- Can't be as bad as rank and file GOP
- No.

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