Online Mob Shaming (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

The internet can shame in a hurry, and at a scale and speed we’ve never known. Tear people up. Take them down. Whatever you thought of Gorilla Mom, the size and speed of the cyber mob that went after her was astonishing. Alligator Mom, who lost her two-year-old to a gator at Disney World – even she got hit. The attacks can be ferocious, heartless and often uniformed. Like a lynch mob. This hour On Point, internet shaming. When is it citizen justice? When is it mob rule? — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/06/23/online-mob-internet-shaming