My Twitter friend Benjamin Boyce highlighted this amazing example of cancel culture which I don’t think I’d ever heard about before. The really short version of this is that a person named David Markovich hosted a meeting on Clubhouse to invite new users of the app (which had just launched in Asia) to try it out. Some woke goons decided it was wrong for a white guy to be hosting a forum of Asian people and targeted Markovich for destruction with an assist from NY Times tech journalist Taylor Lorenz. The author of this very detailed piece on Substack calls it a “social murder on social media” but what he’s describing is clearly cancel culture. It started on February 2, 2021: DAVID MARKOVICH, a 32-year-old marketing entrepreneur in LA, is moderating yet another discussion on Clubhouse – the first audio-only social network. At the time, it’s the next big thing in consumer tech, with myriad celebrity users and funding from top-tier Silicon Valley VCs. Clubhouse “rooms” are akin to audio-only Zoom calls with speakers (between one and dozens) and listeners (between none and thousands). The “mod” serves as traffic cop, ensemble conductor, and radio call-in show host in each “room”, or discussion……
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Another example of cancel culture run amok with an assist by Taylor Lorenz – HotAir
