{"id":9773,"date":"2023-01-16T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9773"},"modified":"2023-01-16T23:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T23:00:26","slug":"5-infuriating-ways-people-got-the-first-amendment-wrong-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9773","title":{"rendered":"5 Infuriating Ways People Got the First Amendment Wrong in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“While college campuses are chock full of particularly mind-numbing misunderstandings of the First Amendment\u2014from students and administration<\/a> alike\u2014the example that takes the cake this year comes from Yale Law School, where student activists disrupted<\/a> a Federalist Society event discussing civil liberties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) attorney Zach Greenberg wrote<\/a>, “Protesters banged on walls, stomped on the ground, chanted ‘Fuck you FedSoc,’ and screamed at the panelists\u2026. The cacophony persisted for the majority of the event, and though panelists struggled to project their voices over the noise, the audience remained largely unable to hear them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The activists’ actions comprised a “heckler’s veto”\u2014a form of unprotected speech where the heckler prevents someone from exercising their free speech rights by physically preventing them from being heard. However, the activists didn’t seem to care. When students were told their actions violated Yale’s free expression policies, a chorus of students insisted<\/a> that “This is free speech.””<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5 Infuriating Ways People Got the First Amendment Wrong in 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>