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You're saying that you love the integrity of the legal system being jeopardised and juries being interfered with?

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abigail95 2y ago
The legal system of the UK ends at their border. They don't get to control what I see, hear or say. This is a fact to be celebrated indeed.
- jjgreen 2y ago
  I'd go further and say that the geoblocking by the New Yorker is excessive. If the UK doesn't want its population accessing what is freely visible in the rest of the world, it should institute a firewall itself.
  - kwhitefoot 2y ago
    Don't suggest such a thing. I'm quite confident that plenty of the population would be perfectly happy with that so long as there was an exception for internet shopping and that there are plenty of politicians who would do their best to put a positive spin on it.
    - jjgreen 2y ago
      You'll be fine, it would be subcontracted out to Capita or the like who would make a pig's ear of the project but come in at 5 times the original budget; then it would be cancelled 2 months before completion and the minister responsible would get a job on the board.
      - kwhitefoot 2y ago
        I've been living outside the UK for so long I'd forgotten about Capita! Long live Capita! :-)
      - LoganDark 2y ago
        "outsourcing companies" exist?
  - Someone 2y ago
    So, should the UK government read every newspaper before it is published, every webpage that gets loaded inside the UK, every tweet viewed in the UK, etc. to check whether it deems it acceptable for UK citizens to see it? If the government had the tech to do that it would be awfully easy to misuse it.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
  Then, since I'm reading this in the UK, that's illegal?
- mjw1007 2y ago
  I don't think they have any desire to control what you see, because you're not going to be on the jury in her next trial.
LoganDark 2y ago
In cases such as this, sure.
lightedman 2y ago
The UK legal system? Integrity? Best joke I've heard all week. This is a system notoriously-known for railroading anyone.
mjw1007 2y ago
It's very hard to argue that a story like this is really getting in the way of the integrity of the legal system. I don't know whether the problem is that the judge doesn't have the discretion to lift reporting restrictions in this case, or that the judge is failing to exercise that discretion. But it's very silly that there was a window after the original case where reporting was allowed (and therefore a great was deal written based on the decision that she was guilty, with as much prejudice to a future jury as you like), and then they closed the window again ahead of the new case.
DEADMINCE 2y ago
They could sequester juries if that were a concern for them.

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The legal system of the UK ends at their border. They don't get to control what I see, hear or say. This is a fact to be celebrated indeed.

jjgreen 2y ago
I'd go further and say that the geoblocking by the New Yorker is excessive. If the UK doesn't want its population accessing what is freely visible in the rest of the world, it should institute a firewall itself.
- kwhitefoot 2y ago
  Don't suggest such a thing. I'm quite confident that plenty of the population would be perfectly happy with that so long as there was an exception for internet shopping and that there are plenty of politicians who would do their best to put a positive spin on it.
  - jjgreen 2y ago
    You'll be fine, it would be subcontracted out to Capita or the like who would make a pig's ear of the project but come in at 5 times the original budget; then it would be cancelled 2 months before completion and the minister responsible would get a job on the board.
    - kwhitefoot 2y ago
      I've been living outside the UK for so long I'd forgotten about Capita! Long live Capita! :-)
    - LoganDark 2y ago
      "outsourcing companies" exist?
- Someone 2y ago
  So, should the UK government read every newspaper before it is published, every webpage that gets loaded inside the UK, every tweet viewed in the UK, etc. to check whether it deems it acceptable for UK citizens to see it? If the government had the tech to do that it would be awfully easy to misuse it.
SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
Then, since I'm reading this in the UK, that's illegal?
mjw1007 2y ago
I don't think they have any desire to control what you see, because you're not going to be on the jury in her next trial.

LoganDark 2y ago

In cases such as this, sure.

lightedman 2y ago

The UK legal system? Integrity? Best joke I've heard all week. This is a system notoriously-known for railroading anyone.

mjw1007 2y ago

It's very hard to argue that a story like this is really getting in the way of the integrity of the legal system. I don't know whether the problem is that the judge doesn't have the discretion to lift reporting restrictions in this case, or that the judge is failing to exercise that discretion. But it's very silly that there was a window after the original case where reporting was allowed (and therefore a great was deal written based on the decision that she was guilty, with as much prejudice to a future jury as you like), and then they closed the window again ahead of the new case.

DEADMINCE 2y ago

They could sequester juries if that were a concern for them.