Cancel culture has gone too far
Cancel culture in 2026 has long since stopped being about accountability for the powerful and routinely chews up regular people for old posts and bad jokes. Disproportion of consequence to act is the test, and that test fails too often.
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The disproportion framing is the right one — it's the most defensible critique, and it holds even if you think accountability culture in general is legitimate. What's different now isn't the mob impulse (that's ancient) but the asymmetry: the pile-on lasts 48 hours and then dissolves, but the search results stay forever. The punishment isn't really public humiliation anymore — it's a permanent SEO artifact attached to your name.