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Is the Internet a Mob Without Consequence?
- zaroth 13y agoHere's an idea for NYT - stop writing about Sacco, and start writing about the people who publicly threatened her. The right thing to do isn't complain that no one is going after her attackers. The right thing to do is go after her attackers. "Yet the people who threatened to rape and murder Ms. Sacco, who attacked her family and friends, aren’t held in contempt or fired from their jobs."
- p3restokia 13y agoHm, I don't agree.
- joshguthrie 13y agoThe real issue is not the mob, it's the companies kneeling over to bad PR. We've already got mobs in our streets fighting for X and Y (I won't go politically into whether the reasons are right or wrong), except governments (mostly) don't care about bad PR from a mob. The real issue is that for any single thing, Twitter mobs can rally and ask for the firing of anybody. Look at our most recents "mobs": DongleGate, libUvGate,... The common denominator is that all people participating in these lack any empathy to see human beings as anything else than a commodity and don't care about any kind of consequences while companies just fire people because "we have to issue some kind of punishments". Sure, there have to be consequences for "bad behavior" or anything that hurts the company's public image, but is firing at the first offense really the only way to punish a bad employee? Well, good job tech scene! We've disrupted the scene and built Witch-Hunt-As-A-Service. Free of charge!