Acting in defence of free speech

[valacosa]

I'm still ticked off about the Blatchford protest. The thing that irks me can be summed up by one quote from a protestor, as reported by The Cord.
"Our goal was to not let her speak, we accomplished that."

Here's the biggest problem I have with their effort to silence free speech: it worked. If the object lesson here is that the group can silence

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[timmyson]

This is fascinating. "nazi-apologizers"? Really?

Amazon is out of stock. Related? I suspect she's doing fairly well, regardless, and the Streisand effect worked on me.

[acmah]

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,"
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall. (According to Wikipedia, it wasn't actually Voltaire who said this!)

From what I've heard, it sounds like the majority of the activists did preserve freedom of speech (i.e. those that were not chained together on stage). Let's not tarnish activists' reputations in general because of the few "activists" who are in the minority. (I would call those three disrupters, not activists.)

I'm sorely disappointed in people who think that disrupting free speech is a valid tactic for enacting positive social change.