Should we encourage cancel culture?

Last year, MyAqsaDefenders, together with other non governmental organisations, launched a high-impact cyberattack campaign.

They urged Malaysians to post their support for Palestine by sharing the hashtag #koyakIsrael on all social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

The campaign was a huge success when #koyak and #koyakIsrael went trending for days on social media. In fact, the word koyak ended up in Urban Dictionary with a definition "used in the context of 'triggered' on the Internet".

For those who are not familiar, this can be best described as an emerging "cancel culture", in which an offending issue is used to trigger a call to remove (cancelling) support for individuals, organisations, issues and even brands.