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Freedom of speech means that you and your ten loudest buddies can walk into a public library and start screaming at the top of your lungs for hours?

Actually, they can... but after a while, if they persist after being asked to quiet down or leave, they can be forcibly removed from the property. PERHAPS even charged with disturbing the peace, but NOT likely. If leos were to try to muzzle them physically however... they would lose their jobs and face civil lawsuits, possibly even criminal charges. YOU CANNOT shut folks up who you don't want to hear.

So then they can persist, be arrested and charged and then sentenced for disturbing the peace at the public library *or* they can go home to their own private property and scream as loud as they want -- unmuzzled.

Exactly my point. Thanks for making it.

they can persist... MIGHT be arrested or charged... an can then come back the next day and do it again and again and again.

The issue about the ten shouters, as it relates to this discussion however, would NOT be what they shout, but the noise they make when doing it. As long as they keep it down they could advocate, discuss or talk about whatever they chose ON THE PUBLIC PROPERTY... they could even stand there and speak about sex to each other or interested "other" patrons of the public library, if they did not get too loud.

NOTHING can be done.
They can go in there and do it, in dirty clothes, without showering for weeks, stinking to high heaven... and that has gone to the highest levels of the legal system. YOU have no right to NOT be offended by WHAT people say.

Pehaps you could try complaining if they are standing around on the public venue talking AFTER curfew, or sunset, or business hours, but you will get NOWHERE EVER trying to control what they say in public venues.

Be careful what you wish for. You may get it.