Interesting discussion in light of the lion killing public shaming in which I participate 
(The thread on CC, that is.)
Oh yes, this is a great topic. Actor James Woods just filed a $10 million lawsuit against an anonymous twitter user for falsely calling him a cocaine addict. http://www.businessinsider.com/james-woods-suing-twitter-user-for-10-million-2015-7
Its about time! Slanderous anonymous posters beware!
Interesting. But how do you serve a suit if you don’t know who they are?
Probably by newspaper publication, if he cannot get the user’s name from Twitter.
Well, I don’t blame James Woods. I will follow this with interest.
More about suing anonymous posters: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-james-woods-twitter-lawsuit-20150730-htmlstory.html
Mobs can be stupid.
And sometimes intelligent mobs can be stupid, as in the Reddit group set up to analyze Boston bombing footage which ID’d innocent people as killers.
Anyone remember this guy? He did it to himself and it went viral http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/stance-chick-fil-a-costs-ariz-man-200-000-year-job-article-1.2167969
^I was reminded of recently seeing the movie “Intruders in the Dust” and some other mob vengeance movie. Different medium, less hanging, still a mob piling on.
Regarding the young woman who tweeted re AIDS in Africa, it seemed pretty obvious that she was making a sardonic comment about the differences between being a comparatively well-to-do white person and a poor black person. I was astonished at the time that people chose to take it as a racist comment.
One of the many reasons I will not use Twitter. People are just crazy.