LucyDuke
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Is the event freely open to the public? Are the organizers paying rent for use of the space?
If they're being herded there from public property like a streetcorner it's straight-up unamerican. Blatantly unconstitutional.
It gets somewhat murky, I suppose, when things get disruptive. I'm warily accepting restrictions on intentionally disruptive behavior. I await good arguments.
Go around bro. You can't call dibs on a highway or a sidewalk or whatever.
So just put it in the contract.
Is it constitutional to confine activists to these areas? Is it permissible to use free speech zones? The first question is about the legality of FSZs while the second is about their morality, in your opinion.
I'm talking more about the constitutionality of free speech zones and whether you support them than your opinion on this specific case, but feel free to comment on that as well.
If they're being herded there from public property like a streetcorner it's straight-up unamerican. Blatantly unconstitutional.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
It gets somewhat murky, I suppose, when things get disruptive. I'm warily accepting restrictions on intentionally disruptive behavior. I await good arguments.
Some of us have jobs and have to work. We dont need to be tied up in traffic because a bunch of protestors are in the way.
Go around bro. You can't call dibs on a highway or a sidewalk or whatever.
If you hire a venue, unless it's in the contract, why should you be forced to allow protestors to enter it?
So just put it in the contract.