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Originally Posted by superslug
Because protesting is different to not allowing someone to speak. The manner of the protests were too violent innocent people getting punched to the ground , women being pepper sprayed at point blanc range.
To be clear, I don't think anyone should be allowed to punch people or pepper spray them.
This depends very much on what "not allowing someone to speak" means.
If it means physically barring someone from entering a venue or trespassing at a venue--those things are already illegal and can be dealt with by authorities as they see fit.
f it means shouting someone down in public or pressuring a school to disinvite a speaker, then those are proper uses of free expression.
For example, Roxane Gay pulled her book from Simon and Schuster in protest of their decision to publish Milo's book. That's a perfectly legitimate method of protest. If S&S decided to drop Milo because of it, then it would also be an effective protest.