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I liked this, especially the Harrod's paragraph. It was more nuanced version of the XKCD cartoon (which I liked, but that Dorian and Ian fairly well disasssembled in @originstorypodcast.bsky.social) It'd be interesting to hear their opinions on it.

I want you to know that I was taught to refer to the ‘unalive’ by Doctor Who, like a decent upstanding geriatric, and not some TikTok-inflected savage. [Just don’t mention Richard Briers…] I have the receipts: www.imdb.com/title/tt0811...

More seriously, if the algorithm of a major and notionally neutral site is set to bury your content, are you saying that that’s merely losing a stage and not being deplatformed, whereas an outright ban would constitute being deplatformed?

Any time any form of editorial control is exercised it is just that. It's content curation and it happens all the time everywhere. The problem is that social media is controlled by a small group of people so their editorial choices look like censorship

Nice Acaster reference!

It's such a good bit.

The genuine anger makes it.

Good grief you are wasted as a trade expert... Why is this not a column in the @financialtimes.com ?

We need to realise that "cancellation" is usually a "Doctor Who cancellation" - you can come back and be bigger than ever, reaching new audiences.

I think it depends on your weight class. J.K Rowling wasn't even dented. Louis C.K was gone for a little while and has returned. Kevin Sorbo just wasn't that popular to begin with, and still isn't.

Sorbo is unpopular with *both* his audiences which is surely a unique skill.