Ah, but it is all about perception. The same thing happened at reddit a few times.

The mob decided someone was guilty, we investigated, found absolutely no wrongdoing. Told the community, they didn't care. They would only be happy with swift, visible action.

Comparing the relatively thoughtful discussion on this topic among the web development community to the reddit mob is not particularly fair or accurate.

I would have to say you're naive for thinking the two are much different.

Any group, no matter how civil and educated, can dislove pretty quickly into mob mentality.

Your cynicism is not well borne out on this message board.

This board is a very rare exception on the internet, and even it descends into its own form of lynch mobbery (with a more elevated tone than most lynch mobs).

Their userbase is not who's suing them.

> why wouldn't they just educate their userbase? <

If you were competing against better funded companies - one of which may be behind these lawsuits (hey, this is business) - how much time would you spend educating? Wouldn't you rather just be selling and making money?

No need for conspiracy theories - other companies have nothing to do with it.

One law firm in particular is behind this lawsuit. This type of thing is their bread and butter.

Which one?