How does punishing folks who *prevent* free speech offend free speech?
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... prior restraint ...
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Expulsion is probably overkill and unnecessary, so it's a bad policy. But there's no "free speech" right to prevent others from speaking.
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Of course there is. I can say: I don’t want you speaking here because I think you are evil. And maybe I carry the day.
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This is interesting. You may protest, but only until it's successful. A variation your rights ending at your neighbor's nose.
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It's actually a very good rule for the venue it intends to regulate. It's being misrepresented here. A
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You're not exercising free speech. You're not conveying ideas. You're interfering with someone else's speech.
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Counterprotesting outside is speech. Yelling to stop a speech isn't.
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A govt entity like UW is forbidding a kind of speech with a heavy sanction. But the students yelling at someone they don’t like are not.
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It’s like a perfect inversion of the issue and you are right, it won’t provoke a response.
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