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If you plan to comment at a conference, and someone tweets the conference organizers, then your panel gets canceled, is that silencing you?

> Fink said he and the organisers of a conference he addressed at Columbia University in New York in October 2018 were hounded by complaints and protests from CFS/ME activists. A petition calling for Fink to be disinvited was signed by 10,000 people. Tuller – who in his blog wrote that the person who invited Per Fink to speak at the conference must be “uninformed or stupid or both” – called Fink a “scary guy” whose methods had “destroyed families.” Tuller urged readers of his blog to go to the Columbia conference and demonstrate.

This kind of stuff happens to IDW members constantly, except their venues have a pattern of giving in to the activists.

If someone makes it cost more to express your opinion, that has a silencing effect.

I don’t think you understand what silencing means.