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A very good comment. It's interesting to think that the Internet lynch mobs of today are not entirely different than the lynch mobs from several decades ago.
by jdrock 16y ago
A very good comment. It's interesting to think that the Internet lynch mobs of today are not entirely different than the lynch mobs from several decades ago.
Sure, the motivations are different, but both groups consist of people falling prey to mob mentality and trying to enforce extreme levels of "justice".
- powrtoch 16y agoNot to mention indefensible levels of confidence. The scary thing about mobs to me (aside from the pitchforks) has always been how quickly and irrationally suspicion becomes verdict. Which I suppose is the whole point behind the post: you have no good reason to believe that the phone number anybody posts actually belongs to the cat murderer, much less any right to punish accordingly.