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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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