The First Amendment and the Culture of Free Speech

The current conception of the first amendment there is that a, so we've been having some issues that are coming up surrounding theoretical the first amendment. These are dealing with private institutions, so they aren't really first amendment cases, but they are about free speech and how it operates. The protesters absolutely have the right protest. That is how that is supposed to work. It is. And wen that said, i just pointed out that i find that it's kind of dangerous to try to import free speech, the whole imfestructure of free speech in this country as a legal concept into shutting down people who exercise their rights in ways that official channels don't like.