A boycott is when consumers protest an organization by refusing to do business with them. Typically this is done to try an effect a change in behavior or policy

A boycott is when consumers protest an organization by refusing to do business with them. Typically this is done to try an effect a change in behavior or policy in said organization. Cancel culture usually targets an individual. The objective is typically not change in policy, but the ostracism of the target. E.g. refusing to buy from Nike until they pay better wages to their manufacturing labor is a boycott. Pressuring a company to fire a certain employee because a group doesn't like the political views of said employee is cancel culture.