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Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by catalogia on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:40PM (#23505907)
The "mob" in "mob rule" does not refer to a mafia. Perhaps that's the source of this confusion?
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Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by skissane on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:49PM (#23505982)
Indeed, it comes from Latin “mobile vulgus”, which means roughly “easily swayed common people”. “mobile” is of course the origin of the English word “mobile”, but the thing being easily moved here is the crowd’s feelings and opinions. “vulgus” is source of the English word “vulgar”, but less pejorative - the masses, the crowd, the common or ordinary people, the non-elite
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