If I said something truly moronic as a teenager back in the “good old days”, but only my family heard me, I’d get punished and that could be enough to rethink m

If I said something truly moronic as a teenager back in the “good old days”, but only my family heard me, I’d get punished and that could be enough to rethink my views or behaviour. My mistake would likely end there. Or at least your neighbours might never know. Now some dumb kid can post to Twitter or Facebook and that can be used against them 10 years later by some random person. You could even be saying things that aligns with your communities values (say you have conservative religious views) and then a bunch of strangers who you don’t know will come after you because they disagree with you. I can literally reach back in time and hold people accountable for things they no longer believe in. Comparing this to not getting lynched is a really low bar. I would certainly hope in this day and age that we’re at least civil enough not to become pitch fork wielding mobs. That’s the bare minimum.