I recently heard (unverified) that a group of women (or possibly people posing as women) were using dating sites to get ICE members to send dic picks, then posting those along with their names and faces to a doxing website.

Fuck ICE and all, but that's revenge porn. Who is verifying any of this information is true anyways?

Mob justice is what fills the void when the state justice system fails. You can say what you want about the flaws of state justice systems, but boy mob justice seems a hell of a lot worse to me.

A lot of people's opinions on mob justice seems to fluctuate depending on whether they relate to the mob or the accused more. It's easy for me to point to the KKK lynching people and say that it's terrible. It was also easy to get caught up in the #MeToo movement believing it was justice, but... Accusing black men of rape was a common excuse for the KKK and other racists to lynch even young boys. Plenty of those accusations went nowhere in the criminal justice system because there just was not any evidence of wrongdoing (the Duke Lacrosse case, the Columbia Mattress Girl case, the Central Park 5, etc), and yet the men accused had their lives ruined anyways. You can argue that those are a tiny fraction of the accusations, but what percentage or amount of people's lives being ruined by false accusations is acceptable? How much power should any one individual have to make an accusation, convince a large group of people, and raise hell?

Heck, you could look at other examples. Just last year Collective Shout managed to pressure payment providers into pressuring Steam and other platforms to take down perfectly legal content. There's the classic scheme of governments using "protect the children" as an excuse to invade privacy, even going so far as to plant CSAM on people they don't like.

Even more minor stuff. I have friends who hate Neil Patrick Harris because he seems like a "mean gay" and because they're fans of Amy Winehouse. Apparently the year she died he and his husband threw a Halloween party, and it featured a charcuterie board of meat in the shape of her corpse. That's the only black mark I can find on Harris- he was confronted about it by vegans on twitter almost a decade after it happened and apologized for it, admitting it was in bad taste. I still don't even know if he ordered it, or his husband, or if a guest brought it- he seemed like he just wanted to move on from such a silly little thing. And also Amy Winehouse was famously a drug addict who was difficult to work with professionally and bragged about hitting her husband, so like... It's totally possible that Harris may have had legitimate reasons for disliking her that I don't know about. Humans are complicated creatures and I'm sure if anyone cared enough to dig up my history they could probably find things I've said and done that I don't agree with today. Some people might want to cancel me for not believing in their God.

The world is turning into a very dangerous place. There's all this talk about resistance, but I find myself more just drawn to survival. Trying to keep my head down and not be important enough for anyone to pay attention to. Even communities of people who I ideologically agree with often devolve into cults of personality or mobs. Arguably the biggest issue progressives have had (more in the US, but also globally) is their own infighting an purity testing, spurned on by right-wing astroturfing.