Lynching —
A mob violence,
a cowardly killing
that promotes fear —
An organized crime,
a murder.
Cyber lynching
is the same,
except it is
an online silencing
of alternative voices —
A backward attempt
by few to monopolize
opinion making.
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A high-tech lynching … [against those] … who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas … unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of [government bodies, opposition parties, mainstream media, individuals...] rather than hung from a tree. —Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. —Napoleon Bonaparte
an excellent and thought-provoking post.