I'm actually NOT sure why. I assume it's because we are unlikely to recognize the actor by name, so they are labeled by their profession? Or is there some other reason? Not being rhetorical. I don't know who Jesse Smollett is.
OP (nkurz) explained that he wanted to focus on the civil liberties and surveillance aspects rather than the specifics of this person's rather famous case.
I'm not in the US and had never heard of him. I did a Facebook search restricted to "Your Friends" and another restricted to "Your Groups and Pages" and there is zero coverage.
I think people are overestimating how well known this guy is.
Same here (I live in Romania), never heard about the actor and I think I have only read some general stuff about the case itself on reddit some time ago, but I didn’t give it any importance. Not to mention that me living in the EU means that I couldn’t read the posted article at all.
