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Davriellelouna @lemmy.world

4d ago

Free Speech Booth, St Louis airport

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"OK, have fun. Enjoy your right to free speech. The armed forces welcomes your dissent."
- “LARGER FREE SPEECH ZONE”
  lol never noticed that sign before
- There's someone who could have used a mother.
  
  removed!
  Edit: downvoters don't know arrested development. And it shows.
- Unrelated but this scene was filmed right here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8RSbdDKFoJHdZ8F26

This looks like some particularly ironical art installation that will fly above the head of most viewers..
- Even if it’s not the intent of putting it there, that’s literally what it is now.

The U.S. Supreme Court determined that airports could not be considered a public forum to practice free speech. According to the ruling, airports exist solely for air travel and not for free expression.
Prior to the court’s decision, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, a not-for-profit religious corporation, would often practice going into public places to distribute literature and asking for donations to support their religion.
Since 1992, airports across the country have adopted regulations governing speech, such as Lambert’s “Free Speech” booths.
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/why-does-lambert-airport-have-free-speech-booths/#%3A%7E%3Atext=One+booth+sits+directly+inside%2Cliterature%2C+or+petitioning+and+protesting.
- So why make a booth then
  
  To give them a designated spot to stay in so they're not wandering around bothering people waiting to collect their bags from baggage claim. It limits disruptive and frankly antisocial behavior.
  
  You can stand behind it to talk with others using free speech.
- I’m not flying, I’m traveling! AM I BEING DETAINED taser noises

What?

So is that like a podium? You get into the booth and can hold a speech?
- Yeah, basically. They're not uncommon, usually the way it works is you can reserve the booth as a representative of a non-disruptive, non-commercial group then go there and hand out your pamphlets on how ankles are sinful or collect signatures for a ballot initiative or just generally ramble on about how knitting is lizardpeople math. Do whatever, you just can't approach people outside the little defined space.
  
  I always knew lizardpeople were behind knitting. Thanks for the confirmation.

What do you think would happen if someone went in there an yelled bomb?
- Well, considering freedom of speech doesn't cover yelling "bomb", probably arrested for causing mass panic.
  
  Muh constitution
- BOMB! THERE'S A BOMB ON THE PLANE THAT'S GOING TO EXPLODE IN MINUTES!
  That would certainly test the free speech part
  
  No, it wouldn’t.
  Jesus Christ has no one taken a civics class or studied how your government works?
  Free speech limitations are clearly set with multiple case precedent. You would be arrested, convicted, and banned from ever flying. Full stop.
- https://youtu.be/jTsPgiUoBKA
- Weapons free booth
- Freedom of explosion, eh?

What a shithole country.
- Wait, how? Not like in general, obviously it sucks here, but how is this particularly egregious....?
  
  He just really likes getting handed pamphlets.
  
  Because no where else in the world with free speech is this considered at all, let alone considered a good idea.

I think Milwaukee has similar

Are you allowed to say, "bomb" when you stand behind the counter?
- Sure. But.
  Story time:
  I was once annoyed at the airport x-ray and joked something like "duh, of course there's a bomb in my bag 🙄".
  The security guy then said: "I know you're joking, you know you're joking, but I now must search your luggage thoroughly. Congratulations."
  Lesson learned: never say "bomb" in an airport. You might have the right, but it will make your & other people's day shittier.
  
  I want to make their days shittier, thanks for the tip
  
  What if my grandfather was a bombardier?

Bring your own helmets

Relevant bit from Airplane!

Is this the Terminal 1 baggage claim area?

This kind of shit makes me want to stand somewhere deliberately away from it and protest free speech being restricted to "zones."
- You're a few generations too late. The supreme court has a long history of case precedent supporting time, place and manner restrictions.
  
  The Supreme Court has a long history of shit takes like Dred Scott and Korematsu, too. Doesn't make 'em right.
- You'd have better luck protesting in the free speech zone as protesting is strictly prohibited outside of the free speech zone.

...in the basement

The qyestion is is that nooth in the secure part of terminal? And if it is, can it really be considered "free speech" if you need to purchase a ticket to get in that part of airport to use it?

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