Cancel culture has ruined careers and lives — but did they deserve it? What consequences should people face for what they say and do? And what does redemption look like in the digital age?

This event was recorded at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney on 25 August 2024.

Speakers

Roxane GayEditor, social commentator, contributing opinion writer for The New York TimesAuthor, Bad Feminist, Hunger: A Memoir of My Body, Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business and more

Megan Phelps-RoperFormer member, Westboro Baptist ChurchAuthor, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to HopePresenter and co-producer, The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling

Andy MillsReporter and podcast producer, Reflector, The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling and formerly The Daily, Rabbit Hole and Caliphate

David BaddielComedian, screenwriter and television presenter Social Media, Anger and Us (BBC)Author, Jews Don't Count, The God Desire and more

Tim Dean (host)Senior Philosopher and Manos Chair in Ethics at The Ethics Centre