The formal channels having failed him, a 41 year-old former Lockheed Martin engineer took his concerns about the security systems of a certain model of Coast Guard boat to the net by posting a 10 minute video on YouTube. A tragic indication of political apathy, at the time that the original story ran, the video had only received about 8,000 views. That number as since grown to 47,000, a notable increase since the story first ran in the mainstream press, but still relatively meager compared to the over 900,000 views that a cat wheel video.
This, of course, comes as little surprise considering that the keywords Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, and even the name of the whistle blower Michael De Kort all fail to produce the video. Now, any video uploaded to the site is assigned keywords by the poster, but even though De Kort used the keywords Homeland Security, and Coast Guard, the latter fails to produce the video altogether, where the former still only sees it relatively on the list–compared to a video with Weed as one of its keywords which is at the top of the list.
Given the number of repeat postings of a “German Coast Guard” video that arise when searching the term Coast Guard, moreover–arguably, the most readily accessible term that comes to mind to search upon hearing of the story–it would be curious to know whether elements within Lockheed or the government have culture jammed the site to make the video more difficult to locate. Whatever the case may be, the video can be viewed either here.
Tags: Internet & Web, Video|
Posted By: CT Moore | Aug 31st
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