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Dozens attend 'Hetero Awesome Fest' in Idaho (www.ktvb.com)

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BOISE, Idaho — A minor confrontation broke out at the controversial "Hetero Awesome Fest" on Saturday when a protester took the stage and began singing a pro-LGBTQ+ song before being removed.

According to several livestreams of the event, including those from Old Street Saloon, the incident occurred during the two-day festival held on June 20-21 in Cecil D. Andrus Park, directly across from the Idaho State Capitol. Mark Fitzpatrick, owner of the Old State Saloon and organizer of the event, rushed the stage and took the microphone from the man after about a minute of singing.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why the hell does the link just redirect me to their YouTube channel?

Edit: Seems to do that only with EU countries, other countries' IPs work. Probably don't want to deal with privacy protection.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately, a lot of local American news sources have opted out of serving pages to the EU for privacy reasons. Kind of disturbing what that means for Americans.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

We're all victims of American capitalism

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

If I were to guess, it’s because they don’t wanna deal with hosting global amounts of video traffic, so for international links, it just forwards it to YouTube, which is much better suited for that.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Then it would be US only. But it works for example with Switzerland (non-EU).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not necessarily. They can have a redirect link without necessarily blocking the original link. There are ways to redirect traffic based on where it’s from it doesn’t mean it becomes impossible to access that source directly.

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