I agree with you, but I'm pretty sure the age of social media has us in the minority.

I feel like there are some obvious problems with celebrating successes without making room for what the person did to achieve that success.

As an example: it would be odd to celebrate Amazon's financial success without mentioning their labor practices. Agree or disagree with them, they are part of how Amazon is able to make money.

If people are more than the worst thing they have ever done, then they are also more than the best thing they ever did. Talking about either in isolation is deceptive.

I agree to a certain extent, but ... if the allegations are true, he murdered his neighbour, raped at least 1 woman, hired a small private army, and was possibly running drugs. For me, that dominates my picture of him, building an anti-virus company seems like a small detail in comparison.

We’ll never know for sure which of the allegations are true, but from what I’ve read/watched, my personal opinion is most seem pretty credible. If they are, I’d find it in poor taste to celebrate much about the man, given how much pain and suffering he’s likely caused.

If he truly is a fraudster, then you cannot really trust is accomplishments as being his own.

Making terrible anti-virus software doesn't make up for murder and rape

Just like many of our founding fathers!

At least one of those rape accusations was made on camera, by Allison Adonizio. It's not a fuzzy Twitter rumor thing. She accuses him of drugging and raping her.

That's the HN default I think.

If you were a rapist, murderer, and fraudster, I would not find you valuable as a human

There's a big difference between cancelling someone for something offensive they said on Twitter (which I disagree with) and cancelling someone who committed murder and rape.

Big, big difference.

Yes, one heinous act can outweigh all the good someone did. That's why we lock up murderers. That's not "cancel culture", it's every functioning justice system on earth.