Mert Sahinoglu

Some men aren’t looking for anything logical. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn – Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine) – The Dark Knight

There are web mobs everywhere.

• Democrats and Republicans used it in 2008 to flood the media channels with thousands of emails when a media channel wrote something that does not fit their agenda.
• The reason why Wikipedia is never a trusted source in a university is that it is ruled by a Mob mentality, where many controversial articles are nothing but a virtual fist fight.
• Whenever you see a video about Chinese human rights, you see the Chinese commenters flooding it with an onslaught saying it is Western Propoganda.
• Any politically incorrect opinion gets squashed because the opinion holder is turned into a racist, fanatic, etc. through a slaught of comments
• Theories that are thrown out there for discussion are killed by web trolls who know nothing but to criticize and ruin the theory .
• Digg.com, the biggest English speaking bookmarking website in the world is ruled by a mob who will bury any bookmarking effect

There could be hundreds of examples for these mobs. They are like leaderless herds with no individual goals. Their only goal is to quiet the opposition. The internet is becoming a place of mob mentality. The courage to oppose a mob is becoming less and less as everyone is scared to “ruin” their online reputation. Internet is not becoming a place for the single individuals to raise their opinions but for mobs to quiet them.

Will you there to be an individual? Will you dare to rise above the crowd? Will you dare to be the thought leader that will run his/her own mob? Without a mob it seems, the world wide world becomes a very lonely and scary place. And your first amendment rights?? Without a mob, just like your privacy it becomes nothing but a concept on an old piece of paper. Because not some men but a lot of them (and women) just want to watch you burn.