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Its not cancel culture because no one was cancelled. A woman posted a shallow and clechéd understanding of what a horror movie is and it went viral. She wasn't
by sthnblllII 6y ago
Its not cancel culture because no one was cancelled. A woman posted a shallow and clechéd understanding of what a horror movie is and it went viral. She wasn't banned for "community guidelines", she wasn't fired from her job she didn't have her paypal confiscated. She got some angry emails and retweets for a flippant opinion of the kind she regularly makes irl with zero consequences. This is rule 37 in action and blaming "platforms" is just a call to actually cancel people the author disagrees with.
There is a problem with platforms. But the problem is that they encourage unsuspecting and naive people to pimp their every thought and action for attention from internet strangers in exchange for getting blasted with targeted ads.
- cdash 6y agoNo, it wasn't cancel culture but I would say it is the roots cancel culture grows from.
- pdonis 6y ago> the problem is that they encourage unsuspecting and naive people to pimp their every thought and action for attention from internet strangers in exchange for getting blasted with targeted ads. I don't know why you're getting downvoted for this (I just upvoted you), it's spot on. My tl/dr for the incident described in the story was "idiot treats Twitter like it's the group of friends she's at the bar with, the expected happens, idiot is surprised". It's a "platform failure", in the sense that hawking addictive products to people naive enough to use them does not speak well for the people who do it; in this case they did it with a platform on the Internet. But the general problem is much older than the Internet and I don't expect it to change any time soon.