This is interesting, but it's missing the parts around the amplification and institutionalization processes. Imagine if all of the world's troubling content we

This is interesting, but it's missing the parts around the amplification and institutionalization processes. Imagine if all of the world's troubling content were in the 'comments section'. Would anyone care? No. The 'comments section' doesn't get widely distributed, it's not backed by institutions or influential individuals etc.. In order for these kerfluffles to have impact they need to be picked up on by supposedly credible institutions, with a wide reach. If the 'Cancel This Person' Tweet were to stay entirely on Twitter among regular people - nobody would care that much. But when the media gets hold, backs it, propagates it, institutions start to adjust possibly by making statements, withholding funding etc. - that's what causes major concern and material influence. More powerful systems and forces use statements made by individuals (often decontextualized) as fodder in their wars over attention, money and ideology.