[Animats]

The big problem now seems to be thought policing by employers. Sometimes because they fear mobs, online or offine, coming after them.

The secondary problem is being forced off social media for more or less random reasons.

[makomk]

Yeah, and I suspect that often what employers really fear is that publications like the New York Times will join the pile-on and a lot of the really aggressive, fire first and ask questions later approaches are attempts to get ahead of the story before they do so that the news headlines are about an ex-employee and it's clear what their stance is.

[TakawaraJu]

Is the fear really justified though?

My first thought is to ignore them because they’re usually microscopic in terms of scale but I’d love to hear from someone who has had their business targeted by a mob and what effect it had on the bottom line and morale