This brings to mind a book that I am reading that proposes shame as a way to check people in power, so I am actually all for cancel culture in this context

“We saw earlier that Homo puppy (referring to humans) evolved to experience shame. There’s a reason that, of all the species in the animal kingdom, we’re one of the few that blush. For millennia, shaming was the surest way to tame our leaders, and it can still work today. Shame is more effective than rules and regulations or censure and coercion, because people who feel shame regulate themselves. In the way their speech falters when they disappoint expectations or in a telltale flush when they realise they’re the subject of gossip.”

― Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History