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It's a central and ongoing misunderstanding throughout the document that, beyond verified users, the Court does not realize Twitter account is not associated wi
by thrway0816 3y ago
It's a central and ongoing misunderstanding throughout the document that, beyond verified users, the Court does not realize Twitter account is not associated with a verified human identity. A judge should not be walking into this case completely ignorant of the subject matter that will be presented to them, but this one is.
- jellicle 3y agoCreating a Twitter account in recent years requires a valid email address and valid phone number, or at least it did until recently. Twitter definitely has a pretty good idea of which human being is behind the majority of its accounts.
- etchalon 3y agoJudges are assigned randomly. They have other cases. It's the lawyer's job to inform the judge on what they need to know.
- darkstar999 3y agoIt is unreasonable to expect a judge to be a subject matter expert on every case they preside over. That's why they ask questions. That is a reasonable question considering there are ways of paying for twitter and ways of getting verified on twitter.
- rsynnott 3y ago“Oh, shit, we have a lawsuit about oil extraction rights up next week. Anyone know a judge who’s also an amateur geologist?” That’s not how it works. The lawyers on both sides are responsible for explaining the salient points; in most legal systems the judge is not expected to be an expert on the non-legal aspects of the matter at hand.