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Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by zorpner on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:53PM (#7527184)
A "lynch mob" is a pejorative term because it refers to a group of people who deprive another person of both their right to a fair trial, and subsequently their right to not be murdered (it also carries connotations of innocence, and a mob looking for a victim that fits a particular preconceived profile).

Banning speech is reductio ad absurdum of arguments that what happened to Eich should be somehow prevented. Because that's all that happened -- people making choices about what products to use, and talking to other people about that choice.

Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by peterwoo on Thursday April 03, 2014 @06:35PM (#7527503)
Well neither did he say or imply that it should be prevented, so again you're being fallacious here.