Two questions:
(1) Say a city bans all billboards with offensive signs, if the
billboards are visible from a private residence; and also bans all tenants,
in privately owned housing (including private university housing) as well as
publicly owned housing, from displaying
The further expression is located (physically) from the interior and
immediate precincipts of a person's home, the lesser the strength that
should be accorded to the privacy/emotional-solace concerns of the resident.
Similarly, if the expression is located in open or public areas, even if it
could
Eugene's points are persuasively stated and just the kind of thoughtful
arguments that I ordinarily would make (or at least aspire to making).
Based upon slippery slope fears (cf. Eugene's recent article), I generally
am most reluctant and most resistant to attempts to draw lines based upon
