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**Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]**

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

writes:

By the government.

By anyone. Freedom of speech is independent of the venue.

You're confusing laws that guarantee or eliminate freedom of speech
with the freedom itself.

You have no right to say anything to any individual or group of
individuals who don't wish to listen to you.

Oh yes, you do. They don't have to listen. If nobody had the right
to speak unless everyone else within earshot approved of what he said,
the world would be a very sad and bizarre place.

Your ability to "say" something facilited by privately owned
facilities, whether it be a supermarket bulletin board or an ISP, is
at the pleasure and discretion of the facilities owner.

If the owner provides the medium, yes. Many owners are strong
supporters of freedom of speech and will not interfere. In some
cases, non-interference also protects them legally.

You can rant all day on any subject you want in a public park, but
not in a mall parking lot if the mall owner doesn't want you there.

And if the mall owner doesn't care, you can rant all you want in the
parking lot, and other people have to hear you.

No, they don't.

Fjukkwit.

Bertie