[yazaddaruvala]

I’m not saying this is a good or bad thing, I’m not smart enough to know yet, but what you describe isn’t new.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_(person)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication

Acting/speaking on specific ideas have caused people to be outcast, “social pariahs”, and excommunicated for millennia.

What is new today is the scale that people can reach, and the ability to excommunicate a person’s scale without excommunicating them.