> A mass “doxing” effort to track down, intimidate and harass people perceived not to have sufficiently mourned the killing of the rightwing activist Charlie Ki

> A mass “doxing” effort to track down, intimidate and harass people perceived not to have sufficiently mourned the killing of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk Track down, intimidate, harass.. interesting phrasing. Quite the contrast compared to Now, a major survey reveals how many Americans feel about the term and its power to hold people accountable. - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/19/survey-cancel-culture-americans-conservative https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/19/survey-cance... 'Cancel culture' doesn't stifle debate, but it does challenge the old order [..] Although free speech remains the bedrock of a free society, for everyone to enjoy the benefits of freedom, liberty needs to be tempered by two further dimensions: equality and accountability. - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/10/free-speech-young-people https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/10/free-s... The 'cancel culture' war is really about old elites losing power in the social media age; Those decried as ‘online mobs’ are mostly people who’ve never been able to influence conversations about their own fates - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/13/cancel-culture-elites-power-social-media-age-online-mobs https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/13/cancel... And given all the inflammatory rhetoric (Nazis this, trans genocide that..), I'm surprised the Guardian didn't think to mention stochastic terrorism. It's not something they usually forget: Like other stochastic terrorists, Trump spews his incendiary rhetoric, licensing random others to take up the call into action. He whips up the emotions of his base, inculcating white fears of invasion. - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/10/trump-el-paso-shooting-speech-words https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/10/trump-... “Words really matter. There’s a lot of people who are starting to talk about stochastic terrorism and what the effect of that is,” she said. (Stochastic terrorism is the public demonization of a person or group that incites an individual’s violent act against the demonized group.) - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/23/teachers-union-randi-weingarten-pompeo https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/23/teachers-uni...