Online Mobs

People have gotten fired and had mobs of hashtag warriors try to destroy their personal lives for merely stating facts or a personal opinion.Yet, the same mobs of people somehow think they are allowed to say the worst things, with no consequences.I'm glad Woods is going after people like this. If anything, it might put a stop to some of the nonsense.

Yeah, vigilante justice by an angry internet mob, what could possibly go wrong?

Quite possible. Other people (non-famous) have had this happen after snide, critical or funny remarks on twitter and facebook.

the problem is that the majority of the internet users are clueless in general and they act as a mob. one ill-minded person spewed utter lies against a project name and then the mob jumped along him to lynch the author and the maintainer. those people don't have the decency to apologize or even try to restore what they destroyed. They only become louder and louder and ofc, try to make some money on top of it.

People have lost their jobs, gotten death threats, had personal information shared, been swatted, and so on when the mob didn't like what you said on Twitter (or Facebook or ...).

This might be of interest: https://quillette.com/2018/08/13/nobody-should-listen-to-twi...

If somebody doesn't want to associate with somebody I think that's of course 100% fine, even if in response to nothing more than what somebody said. But if somebody chooses not to associate with somebody because of an online mob [1] - that's not so okay. Granted some line does have to be drawn here. I think it's great that social media was able to 'touch' an 'untouchable' like Weinstein that would have been impossible without the protection of a mob. But n

Please don't. What you're referring to doing is a snowball that routinely can (and does) roll out of control. The internet would be a marginally better place if it didn't turn into mob retaliation at every outrage incident.

I don't think any protections are needed. People just need to stop participating in those "online mobs" and not take them seriously.It's the same tactic that needs to be employed against terrorists. The more seriously you take them, the bigger threat they are.The people who fired Damore are the problem. They escalated the conflict. They are the ones who should have known better and not get involved in mob justice.

Yes, may have been ironic; but did the first guy who was wronged have a big following on social media?