Party Conferences As Speech Gatekeepers

Internal party procedures—vendor stalls, accreditation, and space allocations—can be used to exclude dissenting factions, effectively functioning as speech controls inside political organizations. This turns logistical decisions into viewpoint filters that shape what members and media encounter as the party’s 'mainstream' stance. — If parties normalize internal no‑platforming, intra‑party democracy narrows and national debate inherits a pre‑filtered range of acceptable views.