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What you call "free speech issues" I call private property issues. If someone enters my home I can ask them to leave if I don't like what they say or how they say it. Going even further if I don't like something someone said while they were off my property I should be able to prohibit them from being on my property.

As for death threats, I don't think those are ever justified outside a self defense scenario.



Different kinds of private property are different.

Your home is very different from a private university, and both are very different from a privately owned, open-to-the-public business.


They are different in their purpose and, possibly, in their ownership structure, but why should that change that the owners have the right to determine what is permissible on their property and what is not?




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