Cancel Culture will be the death of social media or American employment, only time will tell which one.
From Page Six:
TV networks hire PI to scope stars’ social media for racism
A group of big TV networks — including CBS, MTV and VH1 — have hired famed private investigator Edward Myers to probe their own stars’ social media accounts to root out any racist comments, Page Six has exclusively learned.
The move comes after a spate of celebrities were recently fired over resurfaced racist posts. Last week, Bravo fired “Vanderpump Rules” stars Brett Caprioni and Max Boyens for offensive tweets, and on Wednesday the network canned “Below Deck Mediterranean” star Peter Hunziker for a racist Instagram post. Meanwhile, the CW fired Hartley Sawyer from “The Flash,” and MTV let go “Teen Mom’s” Taylor Selfridge for similar offenses (although Selfridge claims she quit).
Now we’re told that several networks have hired California-based firm Edward Myers & Associates in an attempt to root out offensive posts from on-air and production talent before they’re made public and embarrass their bosses.
It starts in Hollywood but it will quickly trickle down to the rest of society.
Corporate America seems to be run by a combination of radical Leftists and gutless-fucking-wonders who fear any sort of social media controversy.
Did one of your 100,000 low-level employees say something on their own private Twitter that was offensive? The Social Justice Hate Mob better get #Boycott[Corporation] trending.
It seems like they believe that a business is directly accountable for every second of every day of every employee and contractor’s life from birth until the present moment whether on the clock or off.
Companies are going to have to hire security firms and investigators to go through employees’ and prospective employee’s social media accounts to look for anything the mob might find offensive and take proactive action, i.e. rejecting the application or firing their ass.
Of course, there is no statute of limitations for the mob, so that Tweet from high school when you were a stupid teenager doing what stupid teenagers do, is going to bite you in the ass.
Of course, we don’t know what counts as racist to the mob, do we? The obvious stuff is obvious, but what about the less obvious stuff? Did you criticize Obama? Did you retweet something from Ben Shapiro? Did you fail to participate in Blackout Tuesday or give your avatar a rainbow background during pride month? Who the fuck knows. There is no way to predict what the mob’s next purity test will be.
My fear is that this added cost and risk is going to make risk-averse companies look for ways to offload that risk and Chinese slave laborers in a ChiCom factory don’t have social media, so I suspect more outsourcing will occur as Americans become too risky to hire.
What I would like to see if corporate America grow a pair of balls and tell the mob to “fuck off, eat shit, and die in a fire” and what employees do on their own time is their own, and it’s only a problem if it affects their job.
Since I doubt that will happen, my second hope is that huge numbers of Americans nuke their social media accounts. Kill your Facebook, Twitter, TicToc, etc. Go so far as to mass delete your YouTube comments.
Social media is a poison that is toxic to society if the Left is making so toxic that it threatens employability in America, we should collectively throw it all in the garbage and go back to a healthier, pre-Facebook America.
You say all that, but at the bottom of your post you have links for Facebook, Twitter, pinterest, and several others I don’t recognize.
That said, I’m breaking my own rule here. About 15 years ago I pretty much gave up commenting on blogs. I found that when I commented too frequently I ended up wasting way too much time on the internet and not enough time on real life. Now I just read a few posts and go about my day. I do enjoy your blog, thanks for putting your thoughts out there bravely.
“You say all that, but at the bottom of your post you have links for Facebook, Twitter, pinterest, and several others I don’t recognize.”
That would fall on me as owner of the blog. I don’t care about what the Cancel Culture can do to me because 1) I am a vocal Gun Owner and have a long and selected list of assholes hating me and 2) Not having a Social Media presence will eventually be seen as suspicious and toxic too. “What id he hiding?” will be enough to cancel you as nobody will want to take the risk of something ever appearing from your past or somebody making something up that could damage a company.
I have no personal social media. Nothing with my name or face attached to it. I am the gray man.
Unfortunately that absence will out a gray man anymore, data collection and processing have advanced to much. To be a true gray man you would need a full social media presence that mimics the sheep but omits what you do and eventually false front will be necessary as advertisers and social media share location data. I wouldn’t be surprised in 5 years if facebook and twitter or their equivalents shows your location and actions in real time.
After the OPM data breach a few years back, my employer recommended that anyone who didn’t have one, get a Facebook and Twitter account. The reasoning being, it’s harder for someone to set up a fake account in your name that way.
So I have a Facebook account that I’ve logged into 2, maybe 3, times.
This is why I have a personal Twitter and Facebook, but they are devoid of all political talk (and I have scrubbed them to be sure of that as best I could), and I post my political opinions anonymously. Its sad I have too, but already once I had some California asshole try to get me fired because I was posting about gun rights. I’ll never do that again.
Disney blows off boycotts from the right, but kowtows to every left demand. The left are the ones using social media like a club. The right seems not to care.
…In Russia party finds you, in America Google doesn’t need to find you, they already know where you live.
My social media is posting on two or three blogs. I actually had a date breach on this blog about a year ago.
WP uses gravatar (I think I got their name right) which is attached to one of my email addresses. For a while my avatar here was a direct link to gravatar. Which meant that you could cross reference.
I have since deleted my gravatar account and Miguel set the settings here to not attach to gravatar.
It is so easy to leak info with out intending to.
Tell your kids too.
Tell them to nuke anything more than a year old, and scrub everything else.
If it even mentions
RACE,
GENDER,
SEX, or
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE,
out it goes.
Anything even remotely insulting or demeaning must go.
ANYTHING POLITICAL must go.
And if Miguel applied the above rules to his Blog, we would only have pictures of animals in his backyard, and posts about his wonderful Mother. May she rest in peace.