"Free speech" is utterly beside the point here, in my view, Max. The notion of "free speech" that we consider sacrosanct concerns government constraints on it, and that's not in play here. No private institution is bound by that constraint. Nor would extra-constitutional invocations of "free speech" in the context of protest have any mea…
"Free speech" is utterly beside the point here, in my view, Max. The notion of "free speech" that we consider sacrosanct concerns government constraints on it, and that's not in play here. No private institution is bound by that constraint. Nor would extra-constitutional invocations of "free speech" in the context of protest have any meaning whatever if they referred to the right of protesters to suppress speech by shouting over it, rather than to the right of suppressed speech to be heard.
As for what actually happened, this string discusses the Charlie Sykes's report: "For about ten minutes, the judge tried to give his planned remarks, but the protestors simply yelled over him . . ."
"Free speech" is utterly beside the point here, in my view, Max. The notion of "free speech" that we consider sacrosanct concerns government constraints on it, and that's not in play here. No private institution is bound by that constraint. Nor would extra-constitutional invocations of "free speech" in the context of protest have any meaning whatever if they referred to the right of protesters to suppress speech by shouting over it, rather than to the right of suppressed speech to be heard.
As for what actually happened, this string discusses the Charlie Sykes's report: "For about ten minutes, the judge tried to give his planned remarks, but the protestors simply yelled over him . . ."
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