12 Nov
2008
12 Nov
'08
3:55 p.m.
Jason Ross wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 14:16, Nick Newman <NNewman@nw3c.org> wrote:
How many cops does it take to throw a community lynching?
None. The question that remains is: Why is the community having to resort to lynching?
Following the metaphor and using the US "Old West" as an example, lynchings were largely due to one of the following:
* a lack of organized law enforcement * a lack of effective law enforcement
The problem is that to fix either of those problems you'd have to wade through a fever swamp of "facists online!" claims from all the pseudo-anarchists who start twitching at the thought of any agency imposing it's will on the internet. -- Jeff Shultz