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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by SpicyLemonZest on Monday March 01, 2021 @06:00PM (#26309686)
We can. My go-to example is Emmanuel Cafferty (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...) - a Twitter power-user took a video of him using the OK sign, then declared him to be a white supremacist and summoned up a Twitter mob to get him fired for it.
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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by jandrese on Monday March 01, 2021 @06:18PM (#26309862)
That's a good example of atrociously poor HR by PG&E. Especially since they're apparently not willing to reconsider. It should be noted that he's has not been banned from speaking anywhere.

I was curious about this so I tried to follow up on the story to see what happened after the fact, but the reporting is pretty much entirely about the firing. I'm curious if he's been blacklisted from his industry or not? If so, that would be a perfect case of cancel culture going too far.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by SpicyLemonZest on Monday March 01, 2021 @06:46PM (#26310107)
He reports that he's been unable to find work (https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2020/nov/25/cover-sdge-l...), although I don't know how anyone could go about confirming that.
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