Regardless of whether people agree with that decision or not, it is not the same as what is being talked about in the article. The article talks about mob just

Regardless of whether people agree with that decision or not, it is not the same as what is being talked about in the article. The article talks about mob justice rapidly impacting peoples' lives even though everything they did would be seen as extremely reasonable. In the case of Mozilla, he wasn't only accused of supporting gay marriage, he donated money to groups whose goals were to get people to vote against gay marriage. There weren't actions taken due to misunderstandings as far as I know. Also I think strong opposition to him as a CEO came from the employees, not outside partners cutting ties to avoid being associated.