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> What happens (first-amendment-wise) when a company town has a literal private-property town square? Could the company control speech in "its" town square? Th
by ascagnel_ 6y ago
> What happens (first-amendment-wise) when a company town has a literal private-property town square? Could the company control speech in "its" town square?
Thankfully, we don’t need to imagine what happens: the Disney Corporation has a modern company town (Celebration, FL)[0]; they control a pair of HOAs (one each for residential and non-residential owners). Lexin Capital manages the literal town square, and while I can’t find anything on the topic, I would imagine standard private property rights would apply to the land they own.
[0]: https://celebration.fl.us/celebration-community-governance/ https://celebration.fl.us/celebration-community-governance/