During Ferguson there were multiple live online sources of information. Reddit had a couple live threads, twitter had a couple active hashtags, there were multiple ustream and livestream broadcasts. There was lots of cussing, name calling, generally un-pc stuff broadcast. Live streamed video caught multiple people yelling un-pc things at people on both sides, tweets were flying with the same thing. Video feeds showed cops prepping, arresting, and cornering even un-antagonistic protestors. The feeds from the people trapped in the coffee shop that wanted to disperse were very interesting, and showed some tactics like the very scary cop van-snatch-and-grab.

This time, there were 2 sanitized twitter feeds. There was 1 reddit live thread, that totally was abandoned by day 2. There were only 2 live feeds that I found, and they did not show much after curfew. Youtube had the most un-PC live coverage, and it was by RT, and it disappeared around curfew too. All this while cnn and the tv crews swarmed on 1 block of the protest with no action. Cnn showed 1 grab-arrest from a humv, but not too many other arrests They did show that they had about 8 cop vans prepping from an helicopter shot, but none were filmed near the tv protests. The first night they said over 200 were arrested. I did not see any arrests on the livestreams, twitters, or even RT.

I tried to post this question on reddit, and it got deleted or blocked all 3 times. It sure looks like they are actively censoring info and live feeds on this subject. Even CNN coverage seemed pretty bandwidth limited. Did anyone else notice the lack of online info sources? or have trouble trying to view or livestream the event?