>>13817285Based. A civil society cannot function so long as the peasants are allowed a means by which to exert mob justice. A big unruly mob often makes unsound/unwise decisions, and taking away the dopamine hit brigaders get is a good start to solving the problem.
After all, if there's one thing the general public has proven, it's that people can be no more trusted with unfettered use of speech than they can be unfettered use (not possession, USE) of firearms. In an age where the internet facilitates the destruction of others through speech alone, speech is no longer as relatively harmless as it was back before the entire world became interconnected through online communication.
Don't get me wrong, group action was acceptable back when it was benign, wholesome, and limited to trolling online forums or griefibg in video games. But now /i/nvasions have become a means by which angry paroles with misdirected anger can wage economic war on one another by ganging up on individual people (rather than organizations), turning them into a social pariah for oftentimes the pettiest or most subjective of reasons (liek omg Person A wore a red baseball cap so they must be a nazi), and supplanting evidentiary legal proceedings with extralegal punishment carried out on a whim solely to sate people's list for violence and power.
I'm sorry to say, but the lack of discipline and self restraint shown by people (and the children they should've never allowed online) is ultimately why this was necessary. If only people just policed their own conduct better, we might actually be able to have nice things like a dislike metric that could be trusted to not simply be the product of a personal army put up to spamming it by either celebrities, the media, or just the members of whatever communities they frequent.
