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> Public shaming...

People already tried to cancel others because they didn't agree with them. Eventually the most of people came to a conclusion that it is no good. I think at least that the most did just that. So I'm proposing another solution, just ignore what you don't like. No one is forcing you to read a blog that uses AI generated images or uses a wrong color for its background.

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I don't know what you really mean by "cancelling", but I think it's totally fine (and even good) to talk about the flaws in stuff.

It’s totally fine to talk privately with someone. Public shaming tend to have very negative effects.

> I don't know what you really mean by "cancelling"

It surprises me, that you don't know. But if you wanted to know you'd ask LLM, not me, right? So I'd rather spare myself from explaining it.

> I think it's totally fine (and even good) to talk about the flaws in stuff.

To talk about the flaws and public shame are different thing, don't you think?

> So I'd rather spare myself from explaining it.

Being snarky doesn't really help your position.

> Being snarky doesn't really help your position.

Pity. I laid great hopes on that particular phrase.

To cancel someone was really popular for a couple years starting just after covid. There's probably a better definition somewhere, but basically it is when a collective of like-minded people decide to publicly shame a person until they are too embarrassed to have an online presence, or even worse, until companies are pressured to not employ the person. It was like unofficial unions against someone existing. It stopped after enough people were cancelled that they were no longer powerless together. Then people who hate others had to evolve into different ways to be disrespectful because this method stopped working, which is why you don't see cancelling anymore

I would say that "cancelling" is mostly organized groups of people publicly shaming and harassing third parties to get to their victim. So like demanding that his employer fires him, demanding that any sponsors cancel their contracts, showing up with a mob outside their home to kill their family, demanding that they get removed from platforms like YouTube or Facebook.

This is a bizarrely twisted narrative that does not conform to reality.

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