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
The equivalence is based on the common (and unsustainable) assumption that there is such a thing as an untampered population. It's some kind of Garden of Eden fantasy.
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Replying to @Outsideness
So your whole position here is just an objection to the concept of a jury? I'm sorry, I didn't understand that. You can have judge trials, jury trials or mob trials. I would have said the third was the worst of the three.
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Replying to @anomalyuk
Jury trials are probably as doomed as democracy, and for the same reasons. Their demographic precondition has been obliterated. ...
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... Some David Friedman-type private arbitration solution fits impending realities better.
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