“Can social punishment be considered free expression? When we don’t have justice at all by any other means, this could be a softer version of achieving that. It’s hard to say.” (FGD_02) (Male) “FoE is one thing, hate speech is another. We (the public) usually forget. It’s about liability about having authority and responsibility of what you say, which can be standing up for the truth too. It’s not about, let’s say, bluntly and verbally abusing somebody who has been accused of theft. Until he or she has been convicted as guilty, there is a chance they can be innocent.” (FGD_07) (Male) “For me, I think the idea of social punishment is not correct, from the perspective of human rights, it isn’t something we should do. But at the same time when I think about why people do this, for those people they cannot do anything else anymore, so this is their only tool to respond to the situation. For me personally, I don’t like the idea of social punishment.” (FGD_02) (Female) “The core of the problem is we dehumanize the other person, we were able to say all these things to the other, because we dehumanize them, like with Min Aung Hlaing. This is the same thing we did with the Rohingya issue, they detached themselves, it was no longer human to human communication, it’s like we are talking about some “evil” figures, something not human anymore. […] We shouldn’t make a habit out of it, because once we dehumanize a person, there is no limit to what we can do. I believe that is what is being done to us, I don’t believe they see us, the 55 million people as human. […] So, in order to salvage our humanity and focus our goals of winning this revolution while keeping intact our humanity, I think we should pay attention to this and catch ourselves from time to time and ask, are we dehumanizing the other person?” (FGD_07) (Male) 35