[redditmigrant]

This is obviously a good thing from a safety standpoint, but I worry we are increasingly becoming a one strike society. Where one instance of bad behavior locks you out of significant parts of the infrastructure. Moreoever this happens in a "court" with no documented laws/appeals process.

[NaturalPhallacy]

Cancel culture in a nutshell.

There's a reason we have "innocent until proven guilty" and lots of interlocking checks and balances in the legal system to prevent the mob from lynching people.

Nowadays they can lynch your social life and employment options over a drunken tweet.

How do we fix this?

[hytdstd]

It has been standard advice--for almost a decade-- to watch what you say online before applying for a job. And background checks have existed for work and renters for much longer.