The echo chamber that social media conglomerates facilitate has ruined discourse, reducing everything to 280-character dunks in Twitter’s case. I also agree with too much power, but also how imbalanced the input vs output of power is. Pre-twitter, cancelling someone required you to either buy tv and radio space calling them out, if you managed to bypass broadcasting conduct and standards or do serious legwork to find out where their live and calling their family, friends and employees.

Post-twitter, just make a few angry tweets with a hashtag (bonus points if you attach the key trigger words that are trendy with the left at the moment) and it’s bound to snowball as “youtubers”, independent “journalists”and “streamers” start virtue signalling to their massive fanbases for their 3 minute feel good dopamine hit. So instead of you and a few dozen at most trying to ruin someone’s life, it is now millions turning over every stone in the person’s life. The amount of work required is the same, but now the load is spread across exponentially more people. It was also not a global effort either. And this shit is going to haunt you forever. You can’t flee to another part of the world, change your name and start a new life, unless you go somewhere super remote and/ or somewhere in the 3rd-world.

Let me just remind anyone who gives a shit to thoroughly nuke your social media accounts and delete them.