Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?

Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by pydry on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:52AM (#24543431)

It's consistent with the BBC acting as a propaganda arm of the British state - something that had become more true ever since the Hutton enquiry and the raft of new political appointees at the head of the organization.

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by DanBC on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:27PM (#24548068)

No, it's consistent with news sources in the UK having to obey the law about reporting restrictions on cases currently before the courts.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guides/the-sub-judice-...

> Matters are considered to be sub judice (Latin for 'under judgment') once legal proceedings become active.

> Criminal proceedings are deemed active once a person is arrested, a warrant for arrest has been issued, a summons has been issued or a person has been charged and remain active until conviction. Civil proceedings become active, in England, when the hearing date for the trial is arranged and, in Scotland, when the parties' pleadings have been finalised and the record is closed.

> Publication of material which is sub judice comprises contempt of court, a crime which is punishable by a fine of unlimited amount and/or imprisonment for up to two years. Third party costs orders may also be awarded against the media organisation, enabling the courts to recover the costs of any trial aborted as a result of the prejudicial reporting.

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by colordrops on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:00AM (#24543548)

And yet you'll find that twitter only marks Russian and Chinese accounts as "state media".

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by arcticbull on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:24AM (#24543845)

I guess you can’t mark something they didn’t report as fake or misleading.

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by joshuamorton on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:38PM (#24545457)

Sounds a lot like wikileaks itself ;)

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by rootsudo on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:56AM (#24544189)

To be fair, the name of the state is in BBC itself.

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by iso1210 on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:20PM (#24545206)

Last time I was in the U.S. I watched Good Morning America on the American Broadcasting Company network

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by chokolad on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:41AM (#24544684)

> To be fair, the name of the state is in BBC itself.

As opposed to RT ?

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by SpicyLemonZest on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:40AM (#24544673)

Twitter's been fairly open about their decisionmaking process here, so we know that's not the relevant factor - they say they don't label BBC because it has editorial independence.

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by pydry on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:56PM (#24545688)

Twitter is wrong then. They used to have editorial independence before the Hutton enquiry.

Any editorial independence they have now is purely nominal.

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by rootsudo on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:52PM (#24546356)

And this is the issue with social media being able to moderate and curate content as they choose.

Makes me wonder about Mccain and the CDA.

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by colordrops on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:39PM (#24545468)

Sounds hand-wavy. How is editorial independence measured?

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Re:Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observ... by SpicyLemonZest on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:52PM (#24545645)

I agree with your skepticism of the objectivity here. Twitter says only that they "consulted with a number of expert groups": https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2020/new-label...

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