>I left off "exerting social pressure" because I felt it was redundant to "expressing disapproval".
It isn't the same at all. It is "a way of [a] expressing disapproval and [b] exerting social pressure. One can express disapproval without the express intent of exerting social pressure. That is, the outcome may exert social pressure but the point is to have your voice be heard, not shut the other person down.
>Let's go back to the example I mentioned in my first comment.
Ok:
>Should I not have the freedom to organize a protest of my local theater for hosting a controversial figure that I think is worthy of cancellation?
>You have complete freedom to do that, but it doesn't mean you should or shouldn't. That's what GP is saying. And cancellation can be over extremely petty or unfounded things. Obviously there is a line but people have taken a "cancel first, ask questions later" approach, and over increasingly petty reasons. One can advocate against that without being against free speech, which means that the government cannot make speech illegal.
Well, what is the purpose of the protest? If it is to make your disaproval known, then it is not an attempt of cancelation. If, as you have clarified, you intent is to exert social pressure to scilence them, then you are trying to both cancel and censor them.
In any case, that doesn't make disagreement of opinions in general censorship, as you have claimed:
>GP arguing that people shouldn't cancel people is a form of censorship
Are we both censoring each other now? Or are we having a discusion?
>I don't know how or why you are separating that one action into distinct categories of speech.
exercising my free speech: (almost) any speech falls under this category.
expressing disapproval: GP expressing disaproval of cancel culture
exerting social pressure: When as a part of "mass canceling" an atempt is made to censor someone.
To recap:
1. Having an opinion is not censorship.
2. acknowlegment of freedom of speech legaly is not the same as an endorcment of said speech.
3. Being against what people do is not a demand that their free speech be taken away legaly.
Therefore:
"Comments like yours seems to reveal a lack of a consistent principle underlying your argument. Instead, you seem to be defining free speech as some narrow window of speech that you agree with and speech outside that isn't worth protecting."
Is wrong.
4. Exterting social pressure isn't always a bad thing and is some times needed. When it is simply used as a weapon to shut down non-dangerous people you disagree with it has usualy gone too far.
These can all be true at the same time