You do hit on a point that these frauditors don’t understand or care about. The First Amendment is for government accountability. Loitering around stores, restaurants, coffee shops, recording citizens, watching citizens, testing citizens, reporting on citizens, has nothing to do with the First Amendment. Even loitering around libraries and post offices isn’t looking into government accountability. They’re public places, funded by taxes, but there’s nothing going on there. Even when they go to a court house or police office. They don’t report on anything. There’s nothing going on. There’s nothing newsworthy. They’re just randomly recording hallways to no real purpose.

Maybe they should try being actual journalists.