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> "you're not allowed to have everything you say heard" Yes. One type of time-place-manner speech restriction is called "captive audience". This limits your
by lotharbot 15y ago
> "you're not allowed to have everything you say heard"
Yes. One type of time-place-manner speech restriction is called "captive audience". This limits your rights to deliver messages in circumstances where your audience has no reasonable way to avoid the message.
These include restrictions on selling legal services at accident scenes or in hospital rooms (the person you're selling to can't avoid your sales pitch), broadcasting political or religious messages on public transportation (many have no viable alternative and therefore can't avoid you), or giving a union election speech to a mass assembly of employees on company time (employees would be risking job loss by skipping out.)
You have the right to say almost anything, but you don't have the right to force anyone to hear what you have to say.