Free speech trolling

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About

Free speech trolling is a form of discussion trolling in which the principle of free speech is used as justification for suppressing someone else's speech.

The underlying argument can be roughly paraphrased as "I have a right to say that you should shut up. If you disagree, then you're against free speech – so shut up and stop censoring me!"

Related

• Someone who engages in free speech trolling with any degree of regularity (i.e. a free speech troll) may be either a FFSQW or possibly a FFN.
• Free speech trolling is a form of hypocrisy.
• Habitual misuse of the term "free speech" is often referred to as freeze peach.

Known Free Speech Trolls

• Milo Yiannopoulos: advocated for the firing of a university professor with whom he disagreed
• Ann Coulter: turned a necessary schedule change into 'liberal free speech suppression'

Links

• Social Justice Wiki
• 2017-08-14 The 'Free Speech' Hypocrisy of Right-Wing Media
• 2017-06-08 What is going on in Wisconsin? by PZ Myers (reshare)
• 2015-05-29 In Defense of Protesting Commencement Speakers (archive) (discussion)
  • Getting paid to speak is not free speech by PZ Myers
• 2014/05/29/Universities becoming bastions of intolerance
  • commentary: Woozle

Notes

Free speech trolls were generally nowhere to be found when Gawker was under attack. See Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight.