Mob politics

"Social media, digital media, has essentially reintroduced mob politics into democratic, or at least, American life in a way that I think would have been unimaginable for the last 100 years.

But suddenly, at least in the last 10 years, those mobs were able to once again collect in the form of digital space and create a very active public pressure that canceled the careers of a few people, but much more importantly, created a culture of people thinking that it’s wiser to keep their mouths shut. 

 

And that, I think, is another distinction between now and, say, 50 or 40 years ago that just makes our era different. Now, whether we have the resources to change that, that’s an open question."

 

Attack on Jedinskis over his published discussion of foreign ideology is a typical example of aggressive mob behavior in Lithuania.