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Re:Joni Mitchell pulling music from Spotify in solidarity wi... by krapp on Saturday January 29, 2022 @01:52PM (#30129177)
Being banned from a service is not an attempt to permanently deprive anyone of their livelihood. No one has ever starved to death in the street because their Twitter account was closed.
Re:Joni Mitchell pulling music from Spotify in solidarity wi... by josephcsible on Saturday January 29, 2022 @02:46PM (#30129708)
Cancel culture is more than just getting people banned from Twitter. Consider this example of when the cancel mob got somebody fired, and then when he found another company that was willing to hire him, the mob immediately turned on it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-20/vmware-st...
Re:Joni Mitchell pulling music from Spotify in solidarity wi... by krapp on Saturday January 29, 2022 @03:32PM (#30130100)
And now he's destitute and living under a park bench, a pariah shunned by society?

He seems to be doing just fine. The article you posted doesn't even say his new employers refused to hire him because of "the mob." You're not exactly proving cancel culture to be the life-destroying force you made it out to be earlier.

Re:Joni Mitchell pulling music from Spotify in solidarity wi... by josephcsible on Saturday January 29, 2022 @04:22PM (#30130614)
> The article you posted doesn't even say his new employers refused to hire him because of "the mob."

Sure, maybe his new employer stood up to the cancel mob. But if the cancel mob got what they wanted, then he would be "destitute and living under a park bench, a pariah shunned by society". Their goals don't stop being evil just because they failed to complete them.

> You're not exactly proving cancel culture to be the life-destroying force you made it out to be earlier.

It's not life-destroying because they "just" succeeded at getting him fired from one job, and weren't successful at getting him immediately fired from his new one?

Re:Joni Mitchell pulling music from Spotify in solidarity wi... by krapp on Saturday January 29, 2022 @04:52PM (#30130916)
>It's not life-destroying because they "just" succeeded at getting him fired from one job, and weren't successful at getting him immediately fired from his new one?

It's not life-destroying because, as far as I'm aware, no one's life - including his - has ever been destroyed by it.

Your claims and the hyperbole of your rhetoric just aren't borne out by reality.

Re:Joni Mitchell pulling music from Spotify in solidarity wi... by josephcsible on Saturday January 29, 2022 @05:14PM (#30131118)
It was an attempt to be life-destroying, and this attempt just (thankfully) failed.
Re:Joni Mitchell pulling music from Spotify in solidarity wi... by choko on Saturday January 29, 2022 @08:41PM (#30132865)
So it's fine as long as the mob is ultimately unsuccessful?