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I've heard several people say that cancel culture isn't censorship, because people who get cancelled aren't prevented from speaking. This is technically correct, but only technically.
The effect (and often the intention) of cancel culture is less to silence its immediate victims than to intimidate others with similar opinions into keeping quiet. So technically, it's exemplary punishment that induces self-censorship.
Its worse than censorship tbh. Careers destroyed, lives threatened etc
Authoritarian rule is easier to point to than mob rule.
But one doesn't negate the other, in either regard.
Like the French Revolution and Robespierre, they will end up cannibalizing themselves.
This is already happening.
That seems to assume that the amount of voice each person currently has is fair. If cancel culture reduces the amount of person A's voice and increases the amount of person B's voice, then how is that different from editorial culture in the past?
But cancel culture also includes deplatforming. So, there are definitely cases where it totally is censorship
The argument is that it's not total censorship since the banned individuals can still speak publicly through other venues
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