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> silencing people with whom you disagree is free speech If the local Amtrak goes by while you're preaching your Totally Free Speech Announcement™, you don't r
by smoldesu 3y ago
> silencing people with whom you disagree is free speech
If the local Amtrak goes by while you're preaching your Totally Free Speech Announcement™, you don't reserve the right to sue them for "silencing" your free speech. You chose a poor venue that you cannot control, the constitution does not obligate the people around you to give you the verbal right-of-way. You are spreading pure federal fiction.
- mhb 3y agoI appreciate you jumping in here with your hobby horse, but anigbrowl is not just referring to public fora (to which your "federal fiction" presumably alludes).
- smoldesu 3y agoThat's to their own private peril. The post I made has two points: 1. Your definition of "silencing" is nonsense. If someone is interrupted or spoken-over, they are not silenced. They are being ignored. If that is disrespectful, private venues reserve the right to remove offensive parties from their property. 2. The explicit thing that you are objecting to is free expression. You may disagree with it, or use it as the reason to eject someone on a private basis. At that point though, you're taking offense to being ill-prepared to handle your audience. With any luck, 3/4ths of college students will be comfortable with peaceful protest by 2025. Maybe it would encourage colleges to re-assess which guests they pay for with their student's (or god forbid, taxpayer) money.
- mhb 3y agoDoes this same argument justify DDoS attacks?