heckler's veto

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heckler's veto

  1. Limiting an individual's free expression by heckle.
    • 2017, Jeffrey Beall, "What I learned from predatory publishers" in Biochemia Medica (vol 27, no 2), Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine
      They kept sending the emails to the university chancellor and others, hoping to implement the heckler’s veto. They tried to be as annoying as possible to the university so that the officials would get so tired of the emails that they would silence me just to make them stop.