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> There's the obvious idea that governments shouldn't be involved in telling people what they can do on private property The government literally tells people
by cgrealy 4y ago
> There's the obvious idea that governments shouldn't be involved in telling people what they can do on private property
The government literally tells people what to do on private property all the time. See zoning rules, smoking bans in restaurants, alcohol sales to minors, food safety laws, animal cruelty... the list is almost endless. I can't even fathom the kind of thinking that suggests that laws end on a property boundary.
> Are we going to have a whole system of definitions of what is billboard
Yes. It's not that hard. We encode complex things in regulations all the time.
- yellowapple 4y ago> The government literally tells people what to do on private property all the time. That doesn't mean it's automatically a good thing.
- cgrealy 4y agoNever said it was. History was (and continues to be) littered with terrible law. If you want to argue that government shouldn't regulate billboards, fine, that's a valid argument. But the general principle of governments setting rules over private property is pretty well established, I would have thought.