Nope, they didn't ban Icke because he was "voicing an opinion", they banned him for being a stupid conspiracy theorist

Thought-provoking article. I, for one, am tired of overuse of the term Cancel Culture. In many if not most cases, what we mean is more a case of

Break up

Boycott

Discard

Ignore

Fire

Outgrow

Lose interest in

Avoid

Divorce

Move on

(Etc)

It’s generally not the case that one expression can be stretched to accurately cover multiple disparate situations. “Cancel Culture” is a linguistically lazy attempt to do just that.

Does it mean if I have a different opinion to a woke person, I can get them banned?

Why not just ignore them?

I think a lot of people are in need of some real history lessons.

Quote from Splinter

In today's lingo, ignore equals cancel.

Exactly. So why shrink our global vocabulary to one-word-fits-all, ignoring all nuance?

Perhaps “cancel” implies some feeling of controlling the person or situation, giving the canceller a false sense of power?