Cop Played Taylor Swift Song Hoping YouTube’s Copyright System Would Block BLM Protestor’s Video, Ploy Backfires

A California police officer played Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” in an attempt to prevent a Black Lives Matter activist from uploading a video to YouTube — in the belief that the platform’s copyright-detection system would block it. It didn’t work.

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