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> an intollerant lynch mob

People have a right to not be murdered. They do not have a right to be the CEO of a company.

A group of people can say whatever they like, and if it puts sufficient pressure on a company that company can choose whether to act. What specific part of what happened here would you like to ban?

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He didn't say or even insinuate that one has a right to be CEO of anything nor that any kind of speech should be banned.

A "lynch mob" is a pejorative term because it refers to a group of people who deprive another person of both their right to a fair trial, and subsequently their right to not be murdered (it also carries connotations of innocence, and a mob looking for a victim that fits a particular preconceived profile).

Banning speech is reductio ad absurdum of arguments that what happened to Eich should be somehow prevented. Because that's all that happened -- people making choices about what products to use, and talking to other people about that choice.

Well neither did he say or imply that it should be prevented, so again you're being fallacious here.

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