Trying to help my town public meetings avoid random internet jerks joining the Zoom and spamming racist stuff.
How do these kids usually find public Zoom meetings to harass?
Trying random IDs?
Searching/scraping the web for Zoom links?
What do other places do with public Zoom meetings to minimize this?
When COVID hit I had find a solution to this for the school board district I worked at. And very quickly.
My solution was 2 different meeting rooms. One for the board members and staff only. This 1 fed a YouTube live stream…
2nd room was for public input. Folks had to pre register. (How they got the join link) Moderated by staff, who cued folks up by pinning the desired speaker and overriding guest audio & video permissions.
Another Staff person routed the output of this 2nd meeting into the 1st. A dedicated computer screen sharing meeting 2 (full screen) as a video feed into 1. This staff person also had control of gate keeping the signal from 2 into 1. Only enabling it when it was called for…
Now of course my department was in video production and we had a broadcast control room and all the necessary toys and staff to make magic happen. But with enough consumer/ prosumer gear, staff and spare computers one can make this work.
Marco Arment
Ryan Poirier (@rgpphotog)