{"id":91190,"date":"2025-04-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/?p=91190"},"modified":"2025-04-06T19:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T17:14:49","slug":"regter-vaar-uit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/regter-vaar-uit\/","title":{"rendered":"Regter vaar uit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Regter Nathan Erasmus het die vyfde week van die hofsaak oor die verdwyning van die sesjarige Joshlin Smith geopen met &#8216;n duidelike waarskuwing aan kuberboelies wat gemanipuleerde videomateriaal versprei oor hom en die regslui betrokke by die saak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ons sal sonder vrees of guns optree,&#8221; was sy waarskuwing aan die betrokke individue en groepe.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy het daarna verwys dat die staat \u00e9n die verdediging slagoffers was van kuberafknouery wat insluit KI- gemanipuleerde videomateriaal wat in die openbare domein geplaas is. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erasmus het prontuit ges\u00ea hy hou niks daarvan nie \u2013 &#8220;I don&#8217;t take kindly to it&#8221; \u2013 omdat hy meen dit die hofproses ondermyn en onnodige agterdog in die gemoedere van die publiek oor die toepassing van geregtigheid veroorsaak.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy het ook die optrede deur sommige individue as &#8220;om die minste te s\u00ea&#8221; doelbewus beskryf. 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