English Dictionary

heckler's veto

名詞

Limiting an individual's free expression by heckle.

日本語の意味

聞き手（妨害者）が行う言論への割り込みにより、個人の自由な表現を制限する行為

The university's decision to cancel the speech after threats of disruption amounted to a heckler's veto.

大学が妨害の脅しを受けて演説を中止した決定は、野次による表現の抑圧に他ならなかった。

意味（1）

Limiting an individual's free expression by heckle.

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.