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That's fair, I don't know of a less extreme word. I don't mean it in the way that it means in the southern US, but in the more broad sense of "trial-less mob ju
by Mizza 7y ago
That's fair, I don't know of a less extreme word. I don't mean it in the way that it means in the southern US, but in the more broad sense of "trial-less mob justice action".
- geerlingguy 7y agoI think it would be more akin to tarring and feathering[1]; usually not intended to kill, but to be a very public and humiliating punishment. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarring_and_feathering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarring_and_feathering
- dmix 7y agoVigilante/mob justice is more appropriate. This type of Justice is always highly emotional, with little or zero due process, often as wrong as it gets it right, and doles out punishments well out of scope of the alleged crime.
- WillPostForFood 7y agoYou just got lynched by the internet mob yourself.
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- wpietri 7y agoThat didn't happen either. He made public comments and received public criticism. If MIT and the FSF board thought there wasn't a problem, they could have kept him on. He chose to resign. If there's any lack of due process, it's at those institutions. But given how both organizations protected him for decades, it seems to me that the real lack of due process was in failing for many years to handle complaints about his behavior.