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I'm not a lawyer, so may be wrong, but am I the only one to think that the presumption of innocence principle does not exist anymore? As there are areas where i

• lazide 5y ago
  Presumption of innocence never applied to SOCIAL judgement. It would be nice if it did, but that was never what happened. It’s why minors information isn’t supposed to be pasted all over the evening news too, so if they make a mistake it isn’t ‘permanent’ and they have some plausible deniability. It’s always been the case that your neighbors or friends or employers or whatever would judge you as they saw fit for whatever they might see or find out about, or even overhear from the local loudmouth/busybody. Regardless of what was found in a court of law. The challenge now is our ‘neighbors’ are now whichever nosy random person in the entire world that cares to look instead of just the local gossip circle, and the gossip is recorded nearly permanently and is indexed in an easy to find way decades later. :s As to if this means people will stop being less judgmental since everyone is likely to have something shitty posted about them at some point? History or the current circumstances don’t seem to be pointing to ‘yes’ right now. But at some point, either everyone is going to stop sharing the smell of their farts every morning, or folks are going to have to stop caring, or we’ll literally not be able to be friends with or employ anyone.