Already multiple sites are posting counter articles, arguing that cancel culture is virtuous because it gets bad people to shut up for good and shows even celebrities that there are consequences for speaking out of line.

It’s all, “Of course, we need and should value open debate and dissenting opinions. But what if those opinions are wrong? Then we should, of course, exercise our own right to silence those people. Just as they have a right to enjoy the consequences of their wrong thoughts, once expressed, we, as a morally superior society, have the right to enforce those consequences on them.”