[BrazzVuvuzela]

Cancel culture isn't that either. Cancel culture is a rebranding of 'shunning', which I bet predates humans as we know them. I bet our social monkey predecessors had such tactics figured out.

Read this and tell me it isn't 'cancel culture': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunning#Overview

Bonus: 'shadow-banning' is stealth shunning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunning#Stealth_shunning

[hnfong]

How about this?

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

[BrazzVuvuzela]

Another word for basically the same thing, yes. Excommunication is top-down directed shunning.

[azangru]

It's probably a combination of the two. Letting the monkey instincts run wild while covering them with modern fanciful words :-)