I have old Facebook and Twitter accounts, maybe some others. I’m old so there’s a MySpace account out there. But I’ve mostly been using reddit the last decade or so, and have migrated to Lemmy. Now, Lemmy is the only social media i use. Recent news got me thinking about this question.

  • @mean_bean279
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    222 months ago

    Somehow I feel like you haven’t read the news in the last 72 hours…

    • @TropicalDingdong
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      62 months ago

      Man it must be nice to live in wherever bubble @morphballganon is in.

      • @JustZ
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        32 months ago

        I don’t know either. I don’t do any TV news. There must more important things going on than jury selection in loser Trump’s case. That said, what happened with this social media jury thing?

        • @TropicalDingdong
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          22 months ago

          Well_

          It’s the first criminal prosecution of a US President, ever.

          Like it’s never happened before. So from a history, unique event perspective there is that.

          But also, yeah it’s like totally non news for one person to be in the jury selection process for a trial.

          The news is that Court room reporters via Fox were basically doing jurors.

          • @JustZ
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            22 months ago

            All good points.

            Oh, doxing. Yeah. The conservative media machine doesn’t sleep on one inch. They have unlimited money, labor, tech, and time. Their goal is to make public service work contentious and adversarial, and stop government from working, especially on things like registrars of voters, boards of education, and of course jury service.

            Of course that was going to be an issue in this case. Need to start treating interference with government service as a serious crime.