About your example, some points are not clear, with relevance to the outcome of litigation land mine.

First of all, the part about the "right to dissent" I think was later retracted; and importantly, a witch hunt was in fact carried out - starting from r/aww ("the cute pets" or similar).

I have just red on The Coversation the article "Shaming unvaccinated people has to stop. We've turned into an angry mob and it's getting ugly" (Julian Savulescu, MCRI, Uni Melbourne and Oxford), https://theconversation.com/shaming-unvaccinated-people-has-... , which reports that

> a whole Reddit channel is devoted to mocking people who die after refusing the vaccine

Does "going to public" increase the liability for legal action?