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Prop 8 Trial Indefinitely Blocked from YouTube

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by Revan, Jan 13, 2010.

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  1. Revan

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    Sorry to tell everyone but according to the Mercury News website live broadcast, today at 2:25PM The Supreme Court ruled to block the Prop 8 Trial from broadcast.

     
    #1 Revan, Jan 13, 2010
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    I'm not surprised. Federal Courts, the Supreme Court especially, have always been very paranoid about cameras in the courtroom. Generally the higher up you go in the system, the fewer cameras are allowed.
     
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    Oh well, Too bad they fucked up :slight_smile:
     
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    :/





    ...fuck.
     
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    I'm speechless. :frowning2:
     
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    I'm finding it difficult to be too annoyed by it. It definetly sucks, but it almost seems pointless considering just how much coverage is being released from people in the courtroom. The couragecampaign is posting transcripts of everything that is going, so I am just focusing on them rather than getting annoyed by the video ban.

    The videos would have made it easier, but there's still a lot of info for those who want to make the time and effort to read it all. ^_^
     
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    Videos are for the lazy ^ :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
     
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    The site I got the info about the decision is also telling about what's going on too.
     
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    While I can see the benefits of filming this trial, I'm pretty against having any cameras or videocameras in a courtroom which is the way we do it in Canada. Public opinion over a specific case should not potentially affect a verdict in my opinion (obviously you can't have it perfectly like that but they should do what they can).
     
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    I think, though, that this is going to probably end up looking bad for the pro-prop 8 forces, because... if they felt like they were making the right choice, why would they want to be secretive about it?

    I think a lot of moderates -- even those who might not have been that supportive at first -- are starting to realize that the anti-gay-marriage people are basically taking a "by any means necessary" approach, and that, in turn, may backfire and make the moderates more likely to be supportive.
     
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    To me it's good public opinion won't play here only because the HRC put out a video once saying thank-you for support in 2009, and they showed like a graph showing HRC got 750,000 new members, whereas the NOM, and several other anti-same sex marriage and anti-gay rights groups got like over 1,100,000 members....so you could guess what would wind up happening if public opinion had a say.......
     
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    I hope someone brings a new iNano or tiny camera into the court room... I'm sure it'll leak somehow..
     
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    That would be a little thing I call illegal xD
     
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    Yes but I'm sure they would find a way to put it to the net and spread it across the net somehow without being able to trace the source. It happens with movies all the time... right?

    And I'm not saying I would do it.. (I would feel so guilty) lol, but really. I think everyone's rights need to be heard and shown... that they are worth fighting for--ON [INTER]NATIONAL TV. :slight_smile:
     
    #14 RaeofLite, Jan 14, 2010
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