When You’ve Been Cancelled, Who Ya Gonna Call?

 

In this piece for Spectator USA’s special issue devoted to cancel culture, I describe my own experience of being cancelled by an online mob two years ago. I lost five positions in total, including my full-time job running an education charity. As I say in the piece, it was a vertiginous fall from grace, like something out of a Tom Wolfe novel. But that isn’t the end of the story.

I’m now setting up a Free Speech Union to protect people who find themselves at the center of one of these witch-hunts. Together, we can stop this digital McCarthyism ruining any more lives.

If you’re interested in joining the Free Speech Union, email me at jsmillsociety@gmail.com

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  1. Unsk Member
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    That’s a frightening story. My condolences. Hopefully you have landed on your feet, but stories like yours need to be told. I think it would help, if you can, to go into a little more specifics how the digital McCarthyism got to you. 

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