This being an election year, heckler's veto is a term you need to know. As used it has two meanings, legal and laymen's:
legal: official restraint of free speech due to concerns over potential reaction by an audience.
laymen's: the action of an audience (note, singular or plural) to shut down free speech through tactics on a spectrum ranging from heckling through violence.
More detail – as usual – at Wikipedia. Get ready, I think we're going to see a lot of the heckler's veto in coming months.
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