"As if contemplating a tormented child taking her own life isn't horrible enough, we must now live with online blame-mobs grabbing hold of a narrative and demanding justice, and not necessarily in a courtroom," wrote Chris Selley of the National Post.
A teenage girl said strangers from around the country had written scathing comments online blaming the parents, deepening the town's pain and anger.
People online blaming the victim, and bashing the victim's choices?
Steele shrugged off the criticism, saying that RNC fundraising has been a "clear, and readily quantifiable, success". And on his way out the door in March, Democratic Congressman Eric Massa posted his resignation letter online, blaming the "toxic atmosphere" in Washington and hinting that his opposition to Obamacare made him a target of the Democratic leadership.
Los Angeles band Maroon 5 may have become the latest international musicians to be barred from China, with online speculation blaming one band member's support for the Dalai Lama.
The row first surfaced earlier this year when he outraged Jewish communities across the UK by publishing online statements blaming "Jews" for supporting the use of violent tactics against Palestinian communities in Israel.
But while the online masses blamed Rotondo himself, and Omer seemed to pinpoint the people who coddled him, it's important not to let the individual characters in this story distract from the larger structural forces that got us here.
The business as usual approach is to blame online pornography for "de-sensitising" young men.
Many of us who are online tend to blame the ease and speed of the Internet for our staccato attention spans.
See Dawn report http://t.co/t1wdImf9 — beena sarwar (@beenasarwar) 13 Oct 12 Update: After this post was originally published, readers made us aware of more examples of the conspiracy theories online that redirect blame for the attempt on Malala's life away from Pakistani Islamists.
Any Muslim will tell you of the vitriol they face for speaking out online, and the blame they are apportioned in the aftermath of terrorist incidents (I'm certainly bracing myself for more "Love letters to Mehreen" – a Facebook page I launched as a way of exposing and combatting the racial and sexist hate that comes my way).
