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Originally Posted by d2_e4
I'd be curious to see how courts ruling audiovisual evidence inadmissible due to how easily it can be manufactured would play out. No cctv, no wiretaps, no cell phone videos, no photographs etc.
I don't know if it will change evidentiary rulings that much. For hundreds of years, it has been relatively easy to fake documents, but that hasn't stopped courts from admitting properly authenticated documents.
Videos work much the same as documents. Somebody has to swear under penalty of perfury that this is a true and correct copy of security camera footage captured on X date and that the video has not been edited or altered.
And that's how I expect it will work going forward.
Fake videos will be be much more destructive in shaping public opinion, where the rules of evidence don't apply.
How hard will it be for Trump supporters to spam social media with fake videos of poll workers coaching voters, destroying paper ballots, tinkering with voting machines, etc.?
Not very. Those videos won't be admitted in court, but they obviously will be sufficient to convince the Playbigs of the world, who are prepared to believe anything that confirms their weltanschauung.
Last edited by Rococo; 03-05-2024 at 01:57 PM.