Comment on If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts?
ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoThe problem is that while on its face the question seems reasonable it quickly becomes more and more absurd the longer you consider it.
ANY online account could be considered social media these days by the prevailing overly broad definitions used. Email? Amazon? ISP subscriber? Newspaper subscription? Cloud storage? Image hosting? Online diary? Tech support forum? Teams account through work? Almost universally they all either include social media components or could be defined as such by the overly broad definitions common today. The question has about as much meaning as asking if the juror has ever used the Internet at all.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What is “the question”?
Because I doubt the questions in a voir dire would simply be “have you ever used social media?” but would a conversation tailored to asking if the juror is interacting with material that is prejudical on that social media.