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I disagree with Sachs here, but this thread does make the important point that "freedom of speech" has always been a sort of incoherent ideal, since speech can be used to drown out or intimidate other speech.https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1014886694909300738 …
Freedom of speech is about freedom of voluntary communication between people who want to express ideas and people who want to listen. Hecklers disrupt that communication, especially for listeners. It's not that complicated.
Do defenders of the heckler’s veto also think free assembly means they can stand in front of marching demonstrators to stop them from walking down a street? Or occupy a room to stop a private meeting? Both are “assembly” as much as screaming is “speech.”
How about surrounding a polling place? I see no more sense in the idea that “freedom of speech” includes the right to drown out other voices, than in “free exercise of religion” including the right to surround a mosque or church so people cannot enter.
Freedom of speech is purely about the ideal; don't wade into nuance about what is and isn't free to say. It's up to the rest of us to expunge what we don't like. Sway minds.
The statement “freedom of speech is about freedom of voluntary communication between people who want to express ideas & people who want to listen” is a linear understanding of communication, which forgets feedback. What about the freedom to respond to what you are listening to?
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