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[riqster]

26. A minor quibble:

What I said was, in part, " The pro-loud-cellphone-user-everywhere Libertarians said, in brief, “tough s***, don’t fly. My right to dominate the space around me by bellowing into my Shoephone outweighs your right to sleep, concentrate, work, etc." So I did address disruptive speech, albeit not exclusively.

I'd be OK with cellphones being allowed, IF the volume and such could be effectively regulated. Rather like planes already do with "loud or disruptive" passengers. The problem is, on an airplane, it isn't always possible to quickly and effectively enforce such a policy.

Unless we had a "here is a parachute, Jack, out the hatch with you now" law, which sounds appealing in the abstract but would, alas, be breaking quite a few other laws and constitutional protections.