'Mr. Bean' star Rowan Atkinson compares cancel culture to a 'medieval mob'
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foxnews.comRowan Atkinson, the actor known for playing the character Mr. Bean, provided his thoughts about the social phenomenon that is online cancel culture.
The British star, 65, told the U.K. Radio Times that it's a scary and dangerous part of the Internet. "The problem we have online is that an algorithm decides what we want to see, which ends up creating a simplistic, binary view of society," he said, according to Deadline. "It becomes a case of either you’re with us or against us.
And if you’re against us, you deserve to be ‘canceled.’" Atkinson added, "It’s important that we’re exposed to a wide spectrum of opinion, but what we have now is the digital equivalent of the medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn.
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