The 52-year-old had things to do and people to see, so he just phoned in his plea
DJ Goldie made legal history on Thursday by pleading guilty to a Glastonbury Festival assault via Facetime.
The 52-year-old and his daughter Chance, 19, were due in court charged with assault following a brawl with a bouncer at the festival last summer.
But Goldie was away working in Thailand, so instead phoned in with his change of plea, and he’s believed to be the first person in British legal history to do so.
Goldie’s daugher Chance appeared at Bristol Magistrates’ Court on time but when her father was finally contacted he tried to enter his guilty plea via his solicitor who read out an email from him containing his instructions.
I was going to write about digital social media and the misplaced blame it receives for so many of our societal ills… which are getting worse (the ills, that is).
However, an event of the past week directly links to my prior post and, in my estimation, underlines, highlights and confirms my deeply held belief that our own inability to distinguish between true and false, hype and real, propaganda and news is a great danger to all of us and, in fact, threatens the democratic societies many of us would like to continue to live in.
Last week I was concerned with paid, yet undeclared, celebrity posts that touted and promoted products and services.
As I reported, in the United States, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has always been wary of such deception and in today’s enhanced digital-sharing society has taken steps to regulate such questionable behavior.
Hardly had my ramble posted when the news broke about the failure of the Fyre Festival to make good on any of its promises regarding “two transformative weekends” of total luxury and stargazing that would become the Coachella for the well-heeled millennial, as described byThe New York Times:
