> For example, suppose a bunch of gamergate types were to > complain about Brianna Wu giving a purely technical talk > about pathfinding and AI. Would

> For example, suppose a bunch of gamergate types were to > complain about Brianna Wu giving a purely technical talk > about pathfinding and AI. Would all the folks who are so > quick to defend Strangeloop also defend it in this case? > > Somehow I doubt it. Of course you should doubt it -- gamergate troglodytes are in the clear moral wrong. There are such things as moral decisions, and people, organizations, and societies are free, indeed obliged, to make them. Absolute and unfettered free speech isn't a moral imperative. Speech can be curtailed, in some circumstances, when it has moral justification.