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It's unfortunate he had to learn that lesson the hard way. Sometimes I wonder if more could be done to educate young people about the hazards of online mob justice, but the cynical part of me suspects that anybody trying to organize education against it would probably be targeted by it.

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Not unfortunate. The only fitting end for people like this is to be taken down by the very mobs they created.

There have always been clear warnings about why mob justice is bad, but some people just cannot resist its allure: The fame, the righteousness, the feeling of being on some moral high ground where no one can touch you.

It's all so glamorous... until it all turns against you. Once the tide turns there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Too be honest I read the article was like fine, maybe writers should try harder not too perpetuate racist stereotypes. I don't think the "mob" here did anything wrong. The title just seems misleading.

Allow me to rephrase; it's a shame he never learned that joining mobs is bad before he ever started joining them.

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