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> Practically speaking, is there much difference between government backed censorship and online mob justice censorship? 1. You can't sue a mob for justice 2.
by humanrebar 9y ago
> Practically speaking, is there much difference between government backed censorship and online mob justice censorship?
1. You can't sue a mob for justice
2. You can't convict or fire a mob.
3. You can move to somewhere where the mob isn't.
More neutrally:
4. Mobs are crowd-sourced. Government censors are appointed experts of some sort.
5. One rouses and incites a mob. One lobbies and corrupts a government.
6. Mobs aren't constrained by things like double jeopardy. The U.S. government is.
7. Mobs tend to be more situational than government rules. Mobs don't care about boring things, niche things, technical things, or sympathetic perpetrators.
- QAPereo 9y agoYou can’t sue the power structure of the PRC. Ditto for 2, and certainly 3 unless you have resources, luck, and manage to get away. 4. Experts. In what? Toeing the party line? 5. True, although mobs are easier kick off than new patterns in govt. 6. Neither is the PRC. 7. True. Edit: typo correction of “can” to “can’t”
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoYou can petition the PRC power structure (e.g. complain about your local government in Beijing). If you are lucky, you won’t wind up in a black jail.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoYou can petition the PRC power structure (e.g. complain about your local government in Beijing). If you are lucky, you won’t wind up in a black jail. And didn’t the term “Human flesh hunt” start out as a chinese one?
- QAPereo 9y agoMy bad, that was supposed to be a “can’t”
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoOk got it. You can try anything in the PRC, it’s just that the results are either unpredictable or perversely predictable.