It's pretty funny that a lot of these cases of 'cancel culture' aren't the mob ("Twitter, do your thing") but journalists going after regular people. As it turns out it's far easier to expose someone without power.

We're a pretty perverse society that random acts of harassment is being viewed with the television lens of "cancellation". That is a risk with the social medium.

Another irony of the situation is that, with the primary center being Twitter, the transgressions have to be minor. Accounts that break the rules (i.e. are racist) are routinely and correctly banned and as such have all their transgressions erased.