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View submission: Philosophical takes on cancel culture
This isn't a philosophical work per se, but Jon Ronson's book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" examines how public shaming has been changed in the age of social media. While public humiliation has fallen out of use as a legal punishment, it's become more and more powerful on social media, both because people's inner thoughts have become more public and because it's easier to fall into a hive mind mentality. Ronson's book doesn't exactly provide a solution (at least not one I found satisfying), but it's a valuable book to read if you're thinking about cancel culture as it is today.
"With social media, we’ve created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It’s all very sweeping, and not the way we actually are as people."
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