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Group A wants to say X that Group B doesn't like. Group B sends massive amount of unrelated messages into the Twitterverse using the same hashtags to bury Group

Group A wants to say X that Group B doesn't like. Group B sends massive amount of unrelated messages into the Twitterverse using the same hashtags to bury Group A's message. Do you leave it alone and thus allow Group A's freedom of speech be effectively suppressed or intervene and suppress Group B? Either way, somebody's free speech is being violated.

themaninthedark 4y ago
That is the heckle veto isn't it? Pretty sure I was told that the louder group is the one that is the winner. https://xkcd.com/1357/ https://xkcd.com/1357/ P.S. I hope that the author sincerely regrets making this comic.
- mrguyorama 4y ago
  That's a purposefully insincere way of reading that comic. All that comic says is that being told "no" and "you're wrong" and people disagreeing with you isn't a violation of your free speech. It's saying that people unwilling to listen to you doesn't mean you aren't allowed to speak.
  - themaninthedark 4y ago
    So you disagree with my parent on the fact that if A's message is being downed out by B's message that is not suppression of freedom of speech? >Do you leave it alone and thus allow Group A's freedom of speech be effectively suppressed or intervene and suppress Group B? Either way, somebody's free speech is being violated. Currently China is doing just that, drowning out the protests with a flood of louder voices. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/tech/twitter-china-protests-spam/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/tech/twitter-china-protests-s... Is that free speech? >All that comic says is that being told "no" and "you're wrong" and people disagreeing with you isn't a violation of your free speech. From the text of the comic: >If you're yelled at(which includes heckling), boycotted, have your show canceled(otherwise known as fired), or get banned from an Internet community, your free speech rights aren't being violated. Formatting mine. That is a tad more than just being told 'no' or 'your wrong', isn't it. It is normalizing attacking the other. I stand by what I said, the comic is bad and I hope that the author feels bad about it.

themaninthedark 4y ago

That is the heckle veto isn't it? Pretty sure I was told that the louder group is the one that is the winner. https://xkcd.com/1357/ https://xkcd.com/1357/ P.S. I hope that the author sincerely regrets making this comic.

mrguyorama 4y ago
That's a purposefully insincere way of reading that comic. All that comic says is that being told "no" and "you're wrong" and people disagreeing with you isn't a violation of your free speech. It's saying that people unwilling to listen to you doesn't mean you aren't allowed to speak.
- themaninthedark 4y ago
  So you disagree with my parent on the fact that if A's message is being downed out by B's message that is not suppression of freedom of speech? >Do you leave it alone and thus allow Group A's freedom of speech be effectively suppressed or intervene and suppress Group B? Either way, somebody's free speech is being violated. Currently China is doing just that, drowning out the protests with a flood of louder voices. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/tech/twitter-china-protests-spam/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/tech/twitter-china-protests-s... Is that free speech? >All that comic says is that being told "no" and "you're wrong" and people disagreeing with you isn't a violation of your free speech. From the text of the comic: >If you're yelled at(which includes heckling), boycotted, have your show canceled(otherwise known as fired), or get banned from an Internet community, your free speech rights aren't being violated. Formatting mine. That is a tad more than just being told 'no' or 'your wrong', isn't it. It is normalizing attacking the other. I stand by what I said, the comic is bad and I hope that the author feels bad about it.