I spent a chunk of the weekend arguing with people suffering or perpetrating misunderstandings over the Tommy Robinson events. The order restricting publication of his case has now been lifted and there is a very good local news report here.https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/tommy-robinson-jailed-couldnt-report-14704946 …
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Replying to @anomalyuk
Don't let free decentralized media get at the voters -- that's "fake news". Don't let free decentralized media get at jurors -- that "prejudices a trial". -- This entire mind-control apparatus is a pre-Internet relic that's crumbling into pieces on all fronts.
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Replying to @Outsideness
That's an entirely false equivalence. Fake news is the complaint that outsiders do the media's job. Jury tampering is the complaint that outsiders do what nobody is allowed to do.
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Replying to @anomalyuk @Outsideness
Do you really think that if the rules that were broken here are swept away (and of course they could be), the result will be to give the mainstream media _less_ power?
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Much as I'd like to see the-worst-possible-thing-that-could-happen-to-the-media be the sole guide to the Zeitgeist, I'm compelled reluctantly to doubt that it is.
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