serenitynow
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 10, 2005
The First Amendment to the Constitution prevents the government from making laws restricting the press, free speech, peaceable assembly, religion or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.A few things:
1) The First Amendment protects people to be able to video and photograph anything from a public location. When on private property, such as Disney, however, the owner or the owner’s agents (CM’s) can ask/demand you not to do so, and if the warning is ignored, the offender can be trespassed from the property forever.
2) I don’t agree with any sentiment that Christmas Eve provides any nuance to this situation. As long as Disney chooses to have the show, the show should be treated like any other show. Many businesses close early on Christmas Eve as a way to give their employees the opportunity to be with their families. Disney does not. So it should live with its policy. You can’t have your cake (the show) and eat it too (rush everybody out the door).
3) I don’t even see the point of all this unrest. What’s the end goal? An apology? I find that, in a lot of these types of cases, the two opposing parties don’t even know what they’re fighting over. It’s just two sides giving each other the middle finger.
“Congress shall make no law ...”.
First Amendment constraints do not apply to a private entity.
The First Amendment prohibits only governmental not private abridgment of rights. See Denver Area Ed. Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. FCC, 518 U.S. 727, 737. Also, see Manhattan Community Access Corp. et al. v. Halleck et al., 587 U.S. 17-1702 (2019).