The madness of crowds

So over the past few years, there has been various stories involving some form of public shaming on the internet -- from dog poop girl, to that chix who stole someone's sidekick, people all throughout the tubes have gotten on their high horses and felt comfortable issuing death threats, harassing phones calls while others have abetted the process by posting personal information about the "target du jour".



This particular case that the Consumerist is covering is a sample troubling example.



Its all fun and games until someone gets beaten up/killed from one of these posts. I think Consumerist is well, well, well within their rights for their comments so far -- but people who have followed up on their postings and made death threats should be prosecuted. That sort of behavior deserves to be chilled with a few prosecutions.