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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okay, but what does this look like in practice?
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Probably a lot more like the courts before the 1960s. A lot more discretion for judges, a lot less mandatory procedures that have to be followed. My mother's job (back in the 1980s) was pre-sentencing social enquiry reports.
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She'd visit the defendant's home and write up a description of the effects that a sentence would have, and suggest "community sentences" that the judge could apply. I'm not saying that's entirely pointless, but something has to give, and it's stuff like that.
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those are indeed giving. very often now the probation officer has to give a verbal Pre-Sentence Report (as they are called now) when the beaks hear the case, and even the written up ones (usually for more, uh, cerebral crimes such as child abuse) are very concise
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Applying the police apparatus designed for social media speech violations to actual criminality would be a good bait-and-switch. ...
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... Arguably, that's what China's social credit system is doing.
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