For me, "speak out" implies mostly unsolicited statements of opinion. Negative or positive does not play a role. Replying to a solicited survey does not constit

For me, "speak out" implies mostly unsolicited statements of opinion. Negative or positive does not play a role. Replying to a solicited survey does not constitute speaking out. Representing the results of a survey as a mass "speaking-out" gives far more impact to the article than it would otherwise have, as if it were some spontaneous outpouring of opinion on the subject. Regardless, I thought HN had a policy against editorialising article titles.