lps41

This law actually does not exempt the state of Maryland. This whole fiasco was brought up in Maryland when someone applied for a State job (I believe at a prison) and his interviewer asked for his facebook password. The man contacted the ACLU after his interview.

I don't understand how the author of this article thinks this could be applied to an audience or protestors.

For this to work, the audio output to each individual person has to be exactly what each individual person is currently saying. If it's a combined audio mess of an entire audience's voices, it's not exactly going to screw up anyone's speech patterns.

So the only way this could work in an audience would be if the back of every chair in front of people had one of these devices on it which could filter out the noise of everyone else around that person and only output their voice.