{"id":220,"date":"2014-04-27T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=220"},"modified":"2014-04-30T18:16:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T23:16:51","slug":"fuck_silencing_tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/04\/27\/fuck_silencing_tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezing Peaches on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When someone has encountered threats and abuse in any given medium, we can respond in such a way that affirms that person&#8217;s moral right to continue expressing themselves freely in that forum, or we can respond in such a manner so as to make it clear that we would prefer that the threats and abuse have <em>precisely their intended effect<\/em>, that is, silencing the subject of the attacks and making them abandon the forum altogether.\u00a0Naturally, I find the latter sort of response incompatible with the core humanist values of compassion and free expression.<\/p>\n<p>Lest there be any confusion about what I&#8217;m talking about here, I&#8217;ve compiled a <a href=\"http:\/\/sfy.co\/rUWq\">few examples<\/a> from just the past couple of weeks of silencing efforts directed at just one secular activist. While these &#8220;shut up and go away&#8221; sort of messages are not <em>necessarily<\/em> abusive in and of themselves, they indirectly support the <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/D4M10N\/what-harassment\" target=\"_blank\">abusers<\/a> by sending the message that the target of their attacks should give in to them and cede the field of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone has encountered threats and abuse in any given medium, we can respond in such a way that affirms&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-expression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}