I don’t understand what work the term “Heckler’s Veto” is doing here. In my understanding, “the heckler’s veto” refers to situations where someone can prevent someone else from speaking by being loudly offended, either directly (by shouting them down) or indirectly (through laws or norms against “offensive” speech). A heckler’s veto is one kind of veto, but I’m not sure what the value is in applying the term to vetoes in general.
This re-framing of the underlying statistical insight (the unilateral veto being “dual” to the unilateral act) seems relevant to its application to censorship: an author deciding to publish a blog post (even if other forum members think it’s harmful) is in the position of taking unilateralist action—but so is a member of a board of pre-readers of whom any one has the power to censor the post (even if the other reviewers think it’s fine).
I’m not sure you can call it a reframing when it’s present fairly prominently in the original paper espousing the concept. But yes, if any number of pre-readers can unilaterally veto publication of a topic, then you might run into the unilateralist’s curse. That doesn’t mean pre-reading for info hazards is a bad idea: the pre-readers (including the authors) can simply take a vote to avoid unilateralist issues.
I don’t understand what work the term “Heckler’s Veto” is doing here. In my understanding, “the heckler’s veto” refers to situations where someone can prevent someone else from speaking by being loudly offended, either directly (by shouting them down) or indirectly (through laws or norms against “offensive” speech). A heckler’s veto is one kind of veto, but I’m not sure what the value is in applying the term to vetoes in general.
I’m not sure you can call it a reframing when it’s present fairly prominently in the original paper espousing the concept. But yes, if any number of pre-readers can unilaterally veto publication of a topic, then you might run into the unilateralist’s curse. That doesn’t mean pre-reading for info hazards is a bad idea: the pre-readers (including the authors) can simply take a vote to avoid unilateralist issues.