Comment Re:Oh boo-hoo! (Score 1) 330
Freedom of speech does imply meaningful access to an audience of some kind. Now yes, that audience must also have the readily-available freedom to not-listen and I don't think the Bill of Rights guaranteed a particular or captive audience, but an audience, at some level, there must be.
I lost you here.... the first amendment doesn't guarantee _anyone_ has to listen to you - it isn't saying "someone should be able to listen to you", it says "if the government happens to be in your audience, they can't retaliate based only on what you said".
I.E. if you want to go drunkenly shouting [insert extremist position here] propaganda at 3 in the morning in a small town deserted for the winter, and the only one who hears you is the local cop - the first amendment means he can't arrest you just for _what you say_. If you make your own website that says Donald Trump is a pumpkin, and the only person who ever goes there is Donald Trump himself - the first amendment means he can't arrest you just because he doesn't like what you said.
There is _no right to an audience_. A right to an audience would imply an _obligation_ for someone else to listen to you. And the Bill of Rights only creates obligations for the _government_, not for individuals.