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I think the real news is the way he was condemned by the media before the audio had been properly analyzed. Guilty until proven innocent seems to be the way these days.

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They look to have been pretty reasonable in the coverage.

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/baltimore-co-schools-...

Alleged, "speculation that the recording was generated using AI", "we need more information", etc.

Thanks! That's a very balanced article. The reporter dug for information.

Yeah, and the original article from two weeks earlier (linked in an early paragraph) was similarly cautious; "may be fake" in the headline, "WJZ is choosing not to publish the recording at this time because we are unable to verify the authenticity of it...", etc.

They can't really just ignore such a story, but they certainly seem to have had their spidey sense up about this one.

> Guilty until proven innocent seems to be the way these days.

Sometimes it can be obvious

More like condemned by the mob. These mobs of well-meaning but uninformed people never seem to learn any lessons.

What lesson is there to learn? Social justice mobs face no downsides. If they're never punished, where's the lesson?

What punishment would you inflict for "getting mad online"?

The perpetrator and instigator of the problem has been caught and is highly likely to be punished for it.

I would hope a lesson might be "we negatively impacted this man and we did so without knowing all the facts, we should do better next time". I'm idealistic.

It's a timeless tradition that transcends time and culture. Probably not going away any time soon. At least these mobs are mostly non-violent.

"If there's one thing to learn from all of human history, it's that we've never learned a single goddamn thing from all of human history." - Robert Evans, a podcaster (Behind the Bastards)

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