Most of the machines that spread the outrage mob were running GNU/Linux or another Free OS. I'm not just being pointlessly obtuse - there is a deeper connection in that when people are given freedom, they don't necessarily just use it for noble purposes.

Sure, it can't really be said that the outrage rags and facebooks are Free Software per se - rather they are proprietary viral-outrage-generating machines even though they may be built on top of Free Software. But setting them up would have been a bit harder without Free Software, and having more investment on the line would have perhaps discouraged wanton slander.

Really I just think it's a novel juxtaposition - we've had plenty of time to come to terms with Free Software facilitating individualist mal-actions (eg child pornography), but facilitating social mal-actions is a newer thing thing to come to terms with.