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Don't want to be a devil's advocate here but nowadays it's left-wing weirdos that use publicly available data to cancel people they don't agree with. Let's keep personal political views out of this discussion.
As for the first paragraph, I vaguely remember reading about this. And this is a great example.
You're the one who brought in a personal political view, and basic history realize your claim, which is why you didn't actually cite any.
I mean, what's a good example of cancer culture? If some white guy says something horribly racist, and then he loses an election, he complains about cancel culture. But that's a good thing, because we don't want racist bastards in office. Of course he doesn't see it that way. So he looks for some new term to describe the phenomenon, some way to make himself a victim.
The term itself was created by right wing people who decided to deploy it against those they didn't favor, as an excuse to justify their own bigotry, but the idea of public shaming and goes back centuries if not millennia. Quite naturally, the establishment has a strong interest in public shaming if it will keep them around longer.
You asked, I answered. Thinking about what right wing weirdos and perverts might do when in power is absolutely part of why I care about my digital privacy.
Lmfao bro did not just cry about "leftist cancel culture" as a whataboutism in response to a real story about the right wing government literally incarcerating someone for getting an abortion based on Facebook PMs?...
Then talk about keeping "personal political views out of this discussion"?...