In literally every case that an internet mob is involved, they're responding to something that thee target of their wrath did. That's true 100% of the time. That doesn't imply that the consequences are always proportional and reasonable. I would say they almost never are.
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"The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
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