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Re:A Javascript journey with only six characters by GavinMcG on Saturday October 08, 2016 @09:49AM (#12666920)
It's hardly the new McCarthyism when there's no government force that leads the charge against private citizens, driving them to be unable to find any work in their field in the US.

The public deciding that it doesn't want to support someone is an entirely different phenomenon. The public can still be wrong, of course, but there's no need to conflate the two situations.

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Re:A Javascript journey with only six characters by jessedhillon on Saturday October 08, 2016 @03:06PM (#12668135)
They're both the phenomenon of policing thought and coercing others to publicly profess, or at least acquiesce to, only blessed opinions. It hardly matters, to this point, whether the behavior is centralized or emergent.
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