Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by NaturalPhallacy 1924 days ago
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?

1 comments

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.