Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Should people be cancelled on social media? Pros and cons, Pros, Cons -…
Should people be cancelled on social media?
Pros and cons
Preventing misinformation
Spreading content that is plain false such as what to do in an emergency situation. If someone posts content that has wrong instructions then it may be fatal to the people who read it. 5/5
Cancelling people who spread misinformation may prevent defamation, as it could prevent an innocent person's reputation and spreading false rumours has serious effects on a person's social life and perhaps career
4/5
Justice
Cancelling someone may bring awareness about the person, especially if they were part of some discriminatory behaviour such as racism or sexism. By cancelling them it may bring awareness to their future employers who after seeing they were cancelled for offensive behaviour may not consider them for the job. This is especially the case if they were not properly punished by law, so cancelling them may justly do that. 5/5
Eliminates the possibility of those spreading disturbing content for the sake of doing it and wanting to spark a reaction from doing so. 5/5
Awareness
May bring awareness about offensive bias from individuals, groups, companies or institutions. For example if you find many notices of racism from a college you may not go there. 4/5
Allows the victims who couldn't do anything about their situation or were kept silenced be able to bring their injustice to light, by holding those people accountable. 3/5
Knowledge
If anyone was just simply mistaken, or was unintentionally wrong, by calling them out they can be educated for the future. 5/5
Other people know of the person's true opinions and thoughts, they may be cautious of them 3/5
Allows for more productive online browsing with a more sense of order 4/5
Danger
Encourages violent behaviour, as it may result to cyberbullying, threats etc 5/5
Those who are cancelled can face physical discrimination, people calling them out or maybe hacking them to leak personal information 4/5
Unjust
People are cancelled simply for having an unpopular opinion. That's unjust, maybe they are right and most people are wrong. Shouldn't be silenced simply for having different opinions. 5/5
Other than remove certain content it doesn't really have any positive benefits, but it does have negative consequences so we can remove offensive content without cancelling people. 2/5
Many people throughout history have been punished, killed, imprisoned etc simply for speaking up. By simply having opposing views and wanting to express them they were punished and silenced. Cancelling people is the same thing but online 3/5
Has many consequences
Offense is vastly subjective. One person might not find it offensive, someone else will. Any expression of any opinion, someone will not be pleased with. That's why people shouldn't be cancelled simply for others taking offense to it, as some opinions are right, and are often not the truth people accept. 5/5
Unfair cancelling of someone will result in a worse social life and career, and if they only said their opinions then they will be backlashed for only just that. 3/5
If certain opinions are prohibited then society will become very biased and feeling-orientated rather than truth-oriented. Countries like North Korea punish civilians for insulting the leader and maybe saying something like "he is unfair" could be the end of them, which simply put is what cancel culture might become (though not as severe) if it progressively gets more and more common and easier to be victim of. 4/5
The phrase "the truth hurts but silence kills" is an example of this. It may be offensive and may hurt people but it is the truth nonetheless. We should not avoid it because it hurts. 3/5
Pros
Cons