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Re:Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis... by theorique on Thursday June 11, 2015 @05:41AM (#9698632)
Extreme conservative opinions like Mr Yarvins are actually shocking to me. I don't think his particular writings should be banned or anything like that. However, are they so reactionary as to represent to the organizers a position that they don't want to even tacitly or obliquely endorse?

Given that the reaction of the organizers was to remove Yarvin's talk, with extremely vague justifications, I think both sides could agree that the answer to this question is "yes".

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Re:Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis... by hga on Thursday June 11, 2015 @09:44AM (#9699640)
But didn't Alex Miller make it clear he knew nothing about Yarvin's politics, that he was exercising a Heckler's Veto due to the people who were protesting Yarvin's politics?

As has been noted by others, this could be interpreted as the latter issuing a "Nice conference and career you have there, it would be a shame if anything happened to them". A political interpretation, yes, but one of pure power politics, vs. anything requiring an actual analysis of the putative issue, Yarvin's politics.

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Re:Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis... by theorique on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:16PM (#9700556)
You're right. Since CY/MM was unknown to the organizers, it was not that the organizers believed he was beyond the limits of civilized discourse.

Rather, the "hecklers" who advised the organizers to drop CY/MM were the ones who held this belief.

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