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Originally Posted by Galt
Apples and oranges, man.
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that was my entire point. airport does not equal school. my point with the amount of federal $$$ that goes to bail out the airline industry every year is that I find the argument that airlines are private companies to be fallacious if you follow the $$$ trail. they are only "privately" owned because we can't allow them to fall into bankruptcy, because they are a
de facto public form of transportation, particularly in the US.
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An exchange of ideas isn't necessary to ride on an airplane from one place to another.
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No, nor is it particulary
necessary anywhere. It's not necessary in the street, it's not necessary at the mall, etc. Following this argument, there would be very few places where the exchange of ideas is actually necessary; to argue that freedom of speech only applies in these places will very strictly limit where one can speak freely, no?
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Anyway; my point was that if you're going to argue that people on a plane have a right to a certain amount of free speech because airlines are "heavily subsidized" and allegedly "near monopolistic", this should apply to people in any environment that meets this criteria.
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see above. that's not actually my argument for where I feel freedom of speach should apply, but rather my opinion of the airline industry.
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But a public school isn't public domain?
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yes, and it's rather different from a lot of other areas.
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I agree. There should be no law prohibiting shirts that say "fuck" on them. Privately owned businesses, however, have every right to implement a dress code on private property.
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what other rights do private businesses have? what other rights should they have. i think it's important to separate those aspects that are
my opinion of what i would
prefer, and which aspects are legally binding, which i think is covered in above posts.