Imagine I'm a visitor from mars and you tell me the government has a monopoly on speech. I say, fascinating, so only the government is allowed to talk?

And you say, well no, anybody can talk, generally.

And I say, oh, do you mean the government does the majority of the talking?

And you say no, most talking is done by private individuals.

And I say oh, do you mean the government decides what people can say?

And you say no, no exactly, see there's these people called judges who are not quite the government who prevent the government from deciding what people can say.

And I'm thinking "?????????"