This principle exists to shield the people from their government. It is not intended to be (and has never been) a protection for someone’s social status or reputation.
For 700 years one of the central principles of British law has been that someone shouldn’t be punished without being brought in Answer by due Process of the Law.
It’s scary how many people are willing to throw that out the window and behave like medieval peasants lynching witches.
WorldWideLem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Who’s throwing him in prison? He’s isn’t facing any legal consequences as a result of this news. He’s facing social consequences from organisations that no longer want to be associated with him. He’s free to being a libel case in the UK if he wants to clear his name, but instead he put up a video claiming “they’re” out to get him.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yep. I understand that it’s hard to prosecute rape, but without rule of law we’re fucked.