Cancel Power Needed Twitter

Updated: 2025.09.13 1M ago 1 sources
The article argues that 'cancel culture' operated at scale because Twitter/X concentrated journalists, corporate PR, and elites in one noisy square where pile‑ons translated into reputational and career risk. As many progressives migrated to Bluesky, that leverage shrank because the audience that makes cancellations bite stayed on X. — It reframes speech‑policing power as a function of platform centralization rather than ideology alone, with implications for media strategy, corporate governance, and online‑speech policy.

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The Bluesky-ization of the American left
Noah Smith 2025.09.13 100% relevant
Noah Smith contrasts Bari Weiss’s 2018 Twitter dogpile with the post‑migration landscape, arguing Bluesky’s smaller reach can’t trigger the same real‑world consequences.
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