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> Misbehaving children need to dealt with too, within the bounds of what is allowed by law. Otherwise, what, you want a loophole for them to get away with all of the above?

Heckling is not against the law last I checked.

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At first, I thought it was a protected form of speech. TIL, I was wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler%27s_veto

Your link does not back up your claim that heckling is illegal. In none of the cases mentioned in that article is heckling found to be illegal.

Here is a better article that I intended to post, plus a couple more for some nuance on 1a protected speech vs. regulated speech

https://nefac.org/is-heckling-a-speaker-a-crime/

https://www.aclumich.org/en/cases/hecklers-veto

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-first-amendment-does-no....

None of these establish heckling as illegal. The first two are about the police not being able to arrest the target of the heckling for incitement (which, yeah, clear 1st amendment violation), the last is about Stanford imposing limits, which is entirely different from the government doing so.

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