Posted by Kirsten Gibbs Last updated 5th June 2020 reading time
Famously, a common test of whether you were a witch or not, left you dead either way.
If you floated when thrown into water, you were a witch, ripe for burning. If you drowned you were innocent.
That must be pretty much how the sub-postmasters using The Post Office’s Horizon system must have felt, when they discovered discrepancies in their accounts. They could either make up the difference themselves (again and again, as the error repeated itself), or stand accused of theft. Either way they lost everything.
The difference is that this is 2020 not 1620. Computer systems are human artefacts not gods. Blind faith in them is unforgiveable.
PS. This very angry post is my 400th.
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