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Entities other than governments can censor. Government censorship is the worse type, but others are also bad. It's completely the mentality of a lynch mob when
by gte910h 16y ago
Entities other than governments can censor. Government censorship is the worse type, but others are also bad.
It's completely the mentality of a lynch mob when you say "go get em boys, they did something we dislike" without stopping to say "Wait, should what they do be allowed? Could banning this have repercussions for other cases? Do I have the full story or just a filtered side of it".
The lynch mob is about the attempted boycott and press pressuring the press to pressure Apple to censor the app.
- stretchwithme 16y agoPeople have the right to object to things and people have the right to choose what they're going to promote. These are legitimate actions citizens can and should take when they encounter evil. There's no lynch mob. A lynch mob decides to ignore due process of law and take the law into its own hands and carry out a sentence it thinks is justified. In this case, the citizens are only doing what they are allowed to do.