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Originally Posted by MattyC
How would you work that? This person lives in the US, what if the shaming was started by a person in Belgium? They're not under US jurisdiction. Now they have to prosecute thousands of people? We can't even get people to stop fighting over non-existent deities and holy places, or figure out how to get everyone on board with renewable energy, but internet shaming will bring the collective governments together in action? Yeah, I don't see it.
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It will definitely require some creativity, but for example, if you make it clear that this is tortious conduct, and the instigator of the mob continues to stoke the flame, that might be compensable - at least you should be able to sue for this stuff.
On the other hand, you can't punish someone for putting out a tweet that just happens to get picked up and goes viral, when they had no intention of creating that crapstorm.
Also worth noting that individual offenders could be prosecuted somehow; if someone posts a yelp review calling for illegal action (you should be killed; your children should be harassed), that should be something that can be dealt with by authorities. If I placed a threatening phone call to your office, that would be a matter for the police. No different here.