Sham investigations silence professors at Central Florida and Princeton
&gt; On Twitter, offended students and others called for Negy’s termination with the hashtag #UCFFireHim. The next day, a UCF press release called his tweets “not only wrong, but particularly painful,” announced an investigation into Negy, and directed students with complaints to a website and phone number.<p>Regardless of whether you agree with this person&#x27;s opinions or not I think it&#x27;s safe to say Twitter has become an actual cancer on the world. Especially in America. I&#x27;ve heard plenty of times at work people unironically say &quot;I don&#x27;t want to get canceled on Twitter&quot; for saying something relatively mundane that in context was fine, but if written in a small tweet would start a feeding frenzy.<p>It is absolutely silly to me that we&#x27;ve let a bunch of upset over-educated under-worked twitter goons have so much external power. Some people deserve to be &quot;canceled&quot;. It&#x27;s not twitter users job&#x27;s to form a mob and prevent people from ever being employed again. I have no idea why or where this started but it probably has to stop for political discourse in America to turn into anything less than immediately incendiary. Reddit has the same problem. I rarely say anything super inflammatory on the internet but this mob mentality has prevented me from contributing to various projects on github, joining discords, etc for fear one of these eternal-victims gets their feelings hurt and decides to dedicate a large portion of their life to destroying mine.