Cecot – 60 Minutes

https://archive.org/details/insidececot

208•lawlessone•2h ago

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kg•2h ago

For context, this report was suppressed by CBS News' new leadership, most likely to appease the US government.

owlninja•1h ago

A little more context if needed (free link):

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/business/60-minutes-trump...

scratchyone•1h ago

I have a feeling this will get DMCA-ed off of Internet Archive in an attempt to suppress it. Here's the infohash of the archive.org torrent download for future reference, this should allow the file to be retrieved in any torrent client as long as someone in the world is seeding it still.

8105370ed7dba50dc7ec659fd67550569b4dd8a0

evil-olive•1h ago

here it is, in magnet link form:

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:734abc77f48d11c78543c52004b6f57db71d6d92&dn=60minutes-cecotsegment&xl=1483256352&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&ws=http://ia601703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=http://ia801703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=https://archive.org/download/

(exported from my currently-seeding torrent client, then pasted into a separate torrent client, to verify that it works correctly)

ProllyInfamous•46m ago

Hey there seed buddy... I'm about to become the fourth web seed.

We're not going anywhere.

—Hydra

JakeStone•5m ago

It's ridiculous that this has to be done.

I'm honestly speechless. But thanks for the magnet link.

pavel_lishin•1h ago

There are other links here as well: https://www.404media.co/archivists-posted-the-60-minutes-cec...

tastyface•1h ago

404media is shadowbanned from HN for nebulous reasons. The mods should really revisit this policy: they've been doing some great reporting recently.

pyvpx•1h ago

Has there been any mention of reasoning behind it?

NaOH•1h ago

There's nothing nebulous; there's no workaround for 404media's articles.

Tell HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall complaints are off topic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 - Sept 2015 (160 comments)

scratchyone•1h ago

It seems to work for me? https://archive.ph/sr0sd

NaOH•1h ago

Maybe that's new? Either way, great to know.

defrost•32m ago

A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote (404media.co)

  289 points by grahamlee 5 days ago | flag | past | 171 comments

so some slip through.

But: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=404media.co sure has a lot of [dead]

drweevil•8m ago

My own experience is that they've been solid throughout. Certainly better than many other options, at a time when the technical press has been generally disappointing.

slg•1h ago

I'm reminded of the Letter on Justice and Open Debate[1] that Bari Weiss signed only a few years ago, now she's spiking stories like this one on CECOT for showing the current administration in a negative light.

I also wonder if this story will get the type of leeway to stay on HN to collect the 200+ upvotes and 300+ comments of that previous example or if it will be flagged off the front page within minutes like so many other similar stories.

EDIT: No idea how long this post actually lasted, but checking in an hour later to see this has been flagged completely off the first 10 pages of HN despite getting close to that 200 point total.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23759283

cdrnsf•1h ago

She was hired following the acquisition of Paramount to do things exactly like this. She's not a journalist.

empath75•1h ago

Everyone who signed that letter was either a dupe or a fraud.

UncleMeat•57s ago

Weiss got her start screaming about how various college professors should be fired. There has never once been a moment in her career where she seriously cared about open debate.

tastyface•1h ago

As a companion piece, here is ProPublica's recent report trying to determine who exactly was sent to this torture camp: https://projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-immigrants-trump-...

cdrnsf•1h ago

Additional context:

> The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that the men sent to El Salvador were overwhelmingly violent criminals; Pro Publica reported that the administration knew at least 197 of the men had not been convicted of crimes in the United States, and six had been convicted of violent offenses.

https://www.404media.co/archivists-posted-the-60-minutes-cec...

LarsDu88•1h ago

How long before Hackernews takes this one down?

ProllyInfamous•49m ago

I typically `flag` a dozen hn posts, daily, within the first five pages (12of150 ~8%). Usually it's because the linked article has nothing to do with hacking, like this one.

But for this thread, despite qualifying within that 8%, I have chosen to upvote. My reasoning is that this policy of deportation is heinous — representing a failed regime's last gasps for relevancy — which will affect USA's reputation, economy, safety, R&D, and technical innovation.

We absolutely need immigration reform, but not like this.

—Shamefully Embarassed American

soared•44m ago

You should probably revisit the guidelines, as your flagging policy doesn’t align with HN guidelines:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ProllyInfamous•11m ago

Thank you for those guidelines.

>anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity

So, porn, then? Surely there must be limits.

----

From those same guidelines:

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime

NaOH•5m ago

There's a lot of from @dang about how the site goal is optimizing for curiosity and what that means in practice.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

SmirkingRevenge•33m ago

There's also some other relevance to tech here, given the role of the Ellisons in all this. It's quite possible the decision to pull the episode came from them. Paramount is trying steal Warner Bros out from under Netflix and is working the Trump admin hard to prevent the deal, even supposedly by telling Trump he can decide who gets hired/fired from CNN.

Andreessen was directly involved in the rise of Bari Weiss too.

scratchyone•42m ago

It's wiped from the front page already

ProllyInfamous•1h ago

<https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot...>

This is disgraceful [0], whatever your opinion on illegal immigration.

[0] deporting non-citizens to 3rd-party countries/prisons

empath75•1h ago

People in the US now have to use VPN’s to get access to domestic news from a foreign country. I think it’s fair to say that the wheels have come off democracy and things are badly broken.

jmward01•59m ago

This is why we need archive.org.

ChrisArchitect•53m ago

Archive links are all good in the comments, but let's make the submission url one of the story links with context:

CBS defends pulling 60 Minutes segment about Trump deportations

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrnv3keeneo

‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/business/60-minutes-trump...

Scoundreller•14m ago

Funny how it leaked out by sending it off to their Canadian distributor

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