Or has society always seemed to be more "guilty until proven innocent"?
First, I know not all countries follow this way of criminal law and I'm not really referring to this changing, more about society in general. Maybe many people never thought this way to begin with but it just seems lately that more and more stories are developing where everyone is guilty from the moment a story breaks until they're somehow proven to be innocent - or never at all.
I just read the latest story about how season six of House of Cards has been halted and now on hiatus based on the recent news about Spacey. I'm not about to imply that he's innocent, not at all, but my first reaction was that the executives in charge immediately thought he might be guilty and stopped production in its tracks. Clearly it's something they need to look into since many people are involved in the production so I can understand why they did it.
But are we, as a society, basically saying he's guilty right here and now and unjustly condemning him based on just this one story? I've never heard of anything remotely like this about him until now, so there's no pattern essentially which could make it more plausible so it just seems like anyone could come out and accuse someone of this and instantly ruin their career. I guess that's when defamation of character lawsuits get filed. That just seems like such a hard thing to prove with this specific story. Anyways, I digress...
First, I know not all countries follow this way of criminal law and I'm not really referring to this changing, more about society in general. Maybe many people never thought this way to begin with but it just seems lately that more and more stories are developing where everyone is guilty from the moment a story breaks until they're somehow proven to be innocent - or never at all.
I just read the latest story about how season six of House of Cards has been halted and now on hiatus based on the recent news about Spacey. I'm not about to imply that he's innocent, not at all, but my first reaction was that the executives in charge immediately thought he might be guilty and stopped production in its tracks. Clearly it's something they need to look into since many people are involved in the production so I can understand why they did it.
But are we, as a society, basically saying he's guilty right here and now and unjustly condemning him based on just this one story? I've never heard of anything remotely like this about him until now, so there's no pattern essentially which could make it more plausible so it just seems like anyone could come out and accuse someone of this and instantly ruin their career. I guess that's when defamation of character lawsuits get filed. That just seems like such a hard thing to prove with this specific story. Anyways, I digress...