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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't understand who your refs are, if not publishers, or the editors they hire. You're not talking about government actors, and the only other people who can respond to a boycott are publishers. I agree it's all silly, but the basic problem is that you haven't figured out who you are analogizing to referees.
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The refs are editors, advertisers, employers... They are anyone the mob can apply to to punish the speaker economically. I use “playing to the refs” because it describes the type of person who tries to shut down a speaker. He’s the kid who doesn’t want to engage. He wants to have the opponent taken out on fouls so he doesn’t have to compete.
