Cancel culture in social media: A dangerous and unfair reproach according to the principles of criminal law

Abstract

The cancel culture is a social phenomenon on the internet social network that pretends to reproach those people who have assumed attitudes or behaviors that are socially frowned upon, even when said behaviors do not constitute a crime. This article seeks to demonstrate, through the principles of criminal law, that it is a movement that brings positive consequences such as visualizing the rights of minorities, but it is also a non-institutionalized way to regulate justice disproportionately because it transgresses the minimum rights of people that have been canceled.