2) Man uses attention to raise ~$1M for charity
3) Journalist finds old posts to attack him for clicks
4) Man apologizes
5) Journalist's old posts now surface
6) Journalist is now getting canceled
Mutually assured cancellation.
Because everyone is a public figure, professional journalists feel justified in attacking them for clicks.
But because everyone is a journalist, professional journalists will get similar treatment.
Before, they could simply attack someone's reputation for profit without much consequence. Now there is significant downside for doing so.
What the mob surfaces can be used by their peers to outwoke them.
Because people click names, and conflict is attention. So their peers will do it.
Perhaps new social networks that incentivize truth via prediction markets & deter character assassination via pseudonymity.
But in the short term, prepare for years of retaliatory cancellations.