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Re:Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro... by jeffdavis on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @11:03PM (#21210430)
Juries are not about accuracy. They are there as another line of defense against tyranny: it's harder to make up charges or convict people of ridiculous things when a jury can nullify it.

Nullification is rare and unfortunately that line of defense largely failed during the drug war. But I think that's largely because the government was able to successfully make it a racial issue. It's not always easy to take advantage of deep social divisions for all kinds of policies, and that's why dictators don't like juries.

Kind of like guns. How useful are they against tyranny really? Useful enough that tyrants try to take them away, and that's all I need to know.

Re:Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro... by Faark on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:53PM (#21219556)
> that's why dictators don't like juries.

Is that actually the case? A dictator should have little problem punishing jurors for bad judgments, incentivizing them to fall in line like judges. But in (western) democracies, dictators seem to arise from demagogues / populists winning elections. Such a zealous fan base will be reflected in the jury.

Re:Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro... by turtlecloud on Thursday October 10, 2019 @02:44AM (#21211622)
If you mention jury nullification, you most definitely will not be selected to be a juror.