@terryenglish @roka @jack @matrix @sathariel @anornymorse @igeljaeger In a criminal trial, the defense attorney and the prosecutor will say things that they know the judge will smack them for and strike from the record. There's a threshold for how often you can pull that before you've pissed the judge off, so both sides will try to dance around the line. Even though they're ordered to disregard the remark or the question, the jury can't un-hear things. They can't un-see the look on the witness's face when they hear the question, or the relief on the same face when the judge says "Sustained".

Maybe she's just an idiot, maybe not, but the effect is the same: she controlled the topic for as long as Stallman humored her, and she spewed several talking points. She injected her dogma in an unexpected place, and it was almost certainly more emotionally charged than the surrounding discussion, which makes it stick in everyone's mind. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic ) So even though she made an ass of herself, she accomplished her goal.