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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
The biggest issue today, IMO, is instant social media. The "Court of Public Opinion" is scary to me. There's too much of a "mob mentality" in most cases. Whether it's a case like this or any other heinous crime, whether it's Twitter or Facebook or forums like this, there are too many people that scream out "Kill him!" or "He's guilty", blah, blah, blah...
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Twitter, etc. really only change the scale of a phenomenon that has always existed. I know that you're surrounded by people who are especially susceptible because they're so widely recognized, but ask Fatty Arbuckle whether this is anything new under the sun.
Reminds me of how it was decades ago when I lived briefly in a small town in Ohio.