People disagree with Bill Maher, but they never threaten his right to speak (or live). People aren’t disagreeing with Anita Sarkeesian: they’re threatening to rape and kill her. And they’re doing so not because of what she says — I mean, for god’s sake, you don’t threaten to kill someone because they say something less than complimentary about Call of Duty — but because of who she is. This is what silencing is — the systematic and yet decentralized response of an entire culture to someone it feels is being uppity and speaking out of turn. It’s not the removal of a single platform; it’s the denial of the right to have any platform in the first place.
Jonathan Chait & Anita Sarkeesian: What Silencing Really Is – Flavorwire

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