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3802551 — 2023-09-21 17:00:48 UTC

In 1991, and with Facebook and Twitter still no data glimmers on the horizon, a new phrase crept into Chinese slang: renrou sousuo, literally translated as "seeking human flesh." The wording was intended to be whimsical, suggesting the human-powered equivalent of what were then fairly novel computer search engines.

3802551 — 2023-09-21 17:04:35 UTC

In 2014, a group of video gamers pressured corporations, under the guise of defending ethics in journalism, to withdraw advertising dollars from media outlets that had criticized the lack of diversity in the gaming industry, and by At the same time they terrorized the players and writers with threats of rape and death.

3500601 — 2023-09-21 17:09:54 UTC

blacklisting and barring from employment of suspected Communists in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s, a collaborative effort between the House Un-American Activities Committee and an eager-to-please private sector.

Printing press

3500601 — 2023-09-21 17:12:59 UTC

The dawn of the printing press brought the monetizing of public humiliation with the tabloid

3500601 — 2023-09-21 17:15:03 UTC

In earlier societies the used to punish people who didn't obey the community rules in the town square to give them a lesson and to warn other people.

Internet

3500601 — 2023-09-21 17:18:35 UTC

The internet brought public shaming into a global outlet, also with social media.

3802551 — 2023-09-21 17:21:11 UTC

As in American writer Shirley Jackson's infamous short story "The Lottery" (1948), when the villagers irreproachably turn against one of their own randomly selected ones. The French philosopher René Girard, in "Violence and the Sacred" (1979), points out that "the mere fact of choosing a victim gives him the aura of exteriority... the substitute victim is not perceived as he really was, i.e. , as a member of the community like everyone else." To justify revenge, you cannot recognize yourself in those you denounce; you have to believe, as Taylor writes, that they "really deserve it."

3500601 — 2023-09-21 17:23:39 UTC

Boycott in social media, or social relations (with organizations or people) as a punishment

APA

3500601 — 2023-09-21 17:26:33 UTC

The take (2021). Is "Cancel Culture" Real? | What Does It Meme. Recovered from: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tykqQcA09ko