Shouting down a speaker at a designated event isn't exercising "free speech" in the same way that punching someone whose opinions you dislike isn't free speech. It is instead a coercive method to stifle discussion among people exercising their rights.
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Shouting, absent true threats or incitement to imminent lawlessness, is free speech. It’s bad manners, and may well be coercive, but is protected speech.
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Arguing is free speech, even if you're shouting. But if you go to a place to shout with the intention of merely drowning out the speaker so nobody else can hear them, the objective is obviously to mute that person, topic (whatever it might be) aside.
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Shouting IS coercive behavior. It’s almost always used in such a way.
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