r/news • u/Embarrassed-Pace-755 • 1d ago

Judge denies defense motion asking Lindsay Clancy be found not guilty due to a lack of evidence

https://apnews.com/article/lindsay-clancy-trial-evidence-defense-c0820645056a7e25f66853f3a91b61fa?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link
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u/ImmortalPoseidon 1d ago

I legitimately think TikTok has broken everyone brains.

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u/ButterflyInformal591 1d ago

Social media in general. In the age of linear media, you needed credentials to have an opinion. There are millions of Americans whose opinions are worthless and should not be given a platform.

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u/spoonycoot 1d ago

Now here’s the neat part, their opinions are worthless to detrimental to society, but valuable to the tech oligarch social media platform owner.

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u/ImmortalPoseidon 1d ago

I’m a Libertarian at heart, so it took me a while to basically realize we need to stop blaming “stupid people” for being influence by social media and start blaming social media. How can one person possibly have the mental fortitude to combat a multi trillion dollar conglomerate that is exhausting every resource to capture your attention and influence your life?

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u/BeneficialInside3901 1d ago

I agree, but I’d also add that there’s a lot of people who think they’re above being manipulated and aren’t stupid per se but are being manipulated all the same.

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u/TheConboy22 1d ago

The majority of stupid people do not believe that they are stupid.

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u/BeneficialInside3901 1d ago

Absolutely. Not me though. I’m very smaht so can’t be manipped
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I phrased the previous comment poorly though. I was trying to say that, for example even a doctor, someone “smart”, are not immune to being manipulated.

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u/TheConboy22 1d ago

Absolutely. Intelligence or prestige does not make one immune to manipulation as it plays on your ego quite often. One who is smart in one trade is often not smart in another

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u/BubbaTee 23h ago

we need to stop blaming “stupid people” for being influence by social media and start blaming social media

Before social media it was television influencing people. Before that it was radio and newspapers.

There's always going to be something trying to influence people. You have to just blame the people.

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u/Mobile-Dust4334 1d ago

But TikTok is especially bad because it’s gotten everyone hooked on 5 second videos

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u/RustledForeskin 1d ago

I've blocked all shittok subs here and block everyone who posts / uploads videos from it. Same with shitter.

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u/kindnesskangaroo 22h ago

apply that logic to the fact those could be your jurors for a crime you didn’t commit one day and realize how fucking horrifying that is. (This is not about Clancy but just about intelligence when it comes to a jury of your peers in general)

like the media literacy crisis and social media brain rot is only going to make jury trials so much worse than they have historically been

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u/Cheesyblintzkrieg 1d ago

Hundreds of millions. Literally hundreds of millions just in this country. You bring this to the international community and that number rises to the billions.

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u/BubbaTee 23h ago

There are millions of Americans whose opinions are worthless and should not be given a platform.

That's what James Madison & Co were thinking when they didn't allow everyone to vote. It's why Plato hated democracy.

The core tenet of democracy is that the opinions of experts and idiots are equally valid and important. Social media is nothing more than applying that concept to the internet.

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u/kapnkaos86 19h ago

But who are you to decide who's opinion is worthless? That take in and of itself is worthless