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[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I really don’t think this is a good idea. Fascist media will be selectively editing the footage to tell lies about what’s really going on, and we all know the people that watch/listen to that garbage are not concerned with actual facts.

[–] galaxies_collide@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The media already does that, so it’s really no different. Without live streaming, the media would just straight up lie about what happened in court and live streaming provides vital protection against that. Trump WILL lie about what happens in court, this is why they are live streaming it.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

True. It’s pretty fucked up that this is even something to be worried about. Trump and his cronies are dogshit.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump's lawyers will definitely be telling lies and spindoctoring everything anyway.

The difference is, by making it public, it will be very easy to rebuke it

It's actually a good thing imho

[–] termus@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

So far they have all had the luxury of having their cases behind closed doors. There's so many times where a judge has laid into them for trying to push ridiculous shit. If that happens (which we know it will because they are clowns) it would be great for the public to see the look on their faces.

[–] eratic@feddit.uk 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disinformation will be spread regardless. Yes, if there's footage it does mean it can be edited and spliced. But then it's even easier to clearly show that it's disinformation if people can just watch the footage.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Precisely this. Whether they have public video of the trial or not, Republicans are going to make up a fantasy version of it anyway. Might as well have this major piece of history on public record as it happens.

[–] peter@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

It's never a good idea to live stream court cases. It interferes with actual justice and makes it a show instead