cancel culture and beyond the pale

Is online cancel culture just an instantiation of pushing people beyond the pale in an online space since they’re not in our physical neighborhood?

How does this relate to the idea of the Dunbar’s number and whether one is local or distant from the perspective of modern people versus pre-modern/pre-connected from an anthropology point of view?

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In his first interview since voting to acquit Trump, GOP Sen Thune:

“If we’re going to criticize the media and the left for cancel culture, we can’t be doing that ourselves.” https://t.co/Ev2xIJxBNf
— amna (@IAmAmnaNawaz) February 19, 2021

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