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jk's avatar

Least favorite new trope after yesterday: “[Media outlet] isn’t a news company, it’s an entertainment company.”

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1. "Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences" (said in the context of government-imposed consequences, not social consequences)

2. FIRE's push to describe disruptive protests as a "heckler's veto" in order to confuse from the legal concept. (I suspect there is some concerted effort to prop this alternative usage up. Of note, the Wikipedia article for Heckler's Veto contains a section on "Outside of Law" which only contains examples from the last 15ish years)

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