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It's highly likely the FBI reached out to many of these organizations to do some initial contact and provide them some information regarding the current threat
by akira2501 2y ago
It's highly likely the FBI reached out to many of these organizations to do some initial contact and provide them some information regarding the current threat outlook. The worry is always copycats.
This strikes me as an overzealous internal response by the content team who otherwise doesn't know what to do with any of this. Since they're publicly traded all of this information is required to be in SEC reports anyways.
- loceng 2y agoThere's a shocking amount of #EatTheRich crowd totally happy with the assassination as supposedly justified vigilante justice. Divide and conquer. The weaponized ideological mob is quite the useful herd to wield.
- mdanger007 2y agoNot what I’m reading. People on my timeline are asking why we’re forced to pay into a feudal system in which health coverage is not guaranteed leaving them with hospital bills in the tens of thousands of dollars for minor procedures after their claim was arbitrarily denied. Others are asking how in the wealthiest nation on earth 1 million people go bankrupt from medical bills when guys like this CEO are making $56 million a year
- wildrhythms 2y agoOr maybe vigilante justice isn't people's first choice, but justice is justice to them.
- loceng 2y ago[flagged]
- thiht 2y agoThe justice system of 27 US states would disagree.
- caseyy 2y agoWhen someone has been wronged, society allows them a temporary excursion from social norms to restore justice. This is also philosophically how the justice systems operate — they are allowed to detain, incarcerate and sometimes murder people who have harmed society. Through this act of justice, society heals. We like to see it in film too. The hero’s family (or pet) is hurt, and they commit many crimes to bring retribution to the offender. The audience feels an elation at the end of such films, as though things have been put in their right place and there is a sense of completion. The phenomenon is extremely common. And I’d argue it is seen here. Society has to a large part deemed this killing a justice. Vigilante justice I suppose is the term. Not making any commentary on whether it’s right or wrong. I think it’s not my place to judge, I don’t have enough context to judge well anyways. But from society’s reaction it appears to be justice.
- akira2501 2y agoHerds are notoriously hard to wield. It's a rather foolish mission. Anyways I see all these as "signals of despair." It shouldn't be that shocking it's just the particular form it is taking this news cycle.
- loceng 2y agoYou don't need precision with a herd. You need to send them in a general direction to "trample" and for just a few of the more skilled-competent ones to feel emboldened and righteous in their vigilante justice - not being competent enough to understand the vast complexities and nuances of every situation.
- xcrunner529 2y agoHmm maybe those CEOs should look into why so many Americans who rarely agree on much hate then so much.
- stevenwoo 2y agoAnybody motivated enough to murder someone in this fashion would probably know or learn about the internet archive.
- asdasdsddd 2y agocriminals are generally really dumb
- HappyJoy 2y agoIt's easy to commit a crime it's hard to get away with it - mostly.
- kelseyfrog 2y agoCatching a criminal is usually a much bigger story than not catching a criminal. And criminals that get caught are tautologically "dumb enough to get caught." We're biased to believe that criminals are dumb because we only catch the dumb ones.
- cr125rider 2y agoThe opposite of survivorship bias?
- deepserket 2y agoI would say it's an example of sampling or selection bias
- Teever 2y agoA lot of white collar criminals seem pretty smart. They get away with commiting their crimes in public for decades and society rewards them for it.
- creer 2y agoTo be fair "doing something, anything, mostly stupid" is well established american standard procedure when something happens. Something "has" to be done - so something gets done.
- jknoepfler 2y agoGeez, next you're going to tell me we're not made quantifiably safer by removing our shoes at airport security (unless we paid money to not have to). /s
- rajnathani 2y agoGiven limited attention spans, removing prominent publicly available information (i.e. with other publicly accessible information still being available) would help reduce the chances of an incident slightly. This is the reason why all those private jet trackers of those prominent individuals were removed from both Twitter and then later Meta too, despite the information still being available publicly in aviation filings.