The problem is people in positions of authority listening to Twitter mobs.
That stops and the mobs lose all their power. It will probably take some lawsuits to set the standard too.
That stops and the mobs lose all their power. It will probably take some lawsuits to set the standard too.
I agree with what you said, but things get hairy when other people in positions of authority agree with, or are part of, the mob.
There already have been lawsuits (e.g. a recent HN thread about a shop getting "canceled" by Oberlin students, leading to a large award in favor of the shop), but I don't think anything is going to change until the general society pendulum swings the other way. And then we have to worry about what's on the other side of the pendulum...
The problem is vindictive people in positions of authority, with no constraints, and heavy ideology aka Universities.
Most American corporations are not ideological, the public sector is a highly constrained place.
Universities allow profs to have their petty adult beefs with each other, veiled in intellectual language or moralisms etc..