Yeah, this. I don't always agree with *who* gets canceled and *why*, but the alternative -- "don't voice disapproval or voluntarily disassociate when you believe something to be unethical" -- is a lot worse.https://twitter.com/ArthurB/status/1204469207825616896 …
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I agree that a private adjudication service that *charges a fee* would probably be biased towards corporations, since they'd be the most reliable big customers. Maybe they need to be free and donation-supported. Or randomize who they charge. I don't know exactly.
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It is not as if the US legal system is the only one there is. For instance, you can make lawyers work for flat fees, limit damages to avoid bankruptcies, introduce more common sense discretion into judgement of the lower courts, etc.
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Canceling does not offer presumption of innocence, appeals process, commensurability, restitution, ex post facto, habeas corpus, accountability of the court, correction etc. The US legal system may be bad but not that bad.
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Most of these don’t apply in practice; people are routinely jailed for over a year without trial. The court system doesn’t have the staff to give most people a trial at all. The real penalty isn’t the sentence, but the bail, jail time, and plea deal.
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