On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Tim May wrote: > Did I "invite the public in" when an announcement was made for a > meeting at my house last September? There were many people I had never > met personally, nor even heard of. > > Nearly all were well-behaved, but what if someone had not been? Were my > property rights somehow lost by the fact that I had many to attend that > I did not know personally? Could somehow who disrupted the meeting, > perhaps even by wearing a "Support the War Against Crypto" or "Buy > Alcohol Detectors for Your Car" tee-shirts, have claimed that they had > some "right" to remain in my house even after I asked them to leave? > > Does my right to control my own property vanish when I become a shop or > restaurant? How about when I get larger?
Renowned cypherpunk Dave Del Torto thinks it does. This is the argument that he was using to try to gain admittance to CodeCon this year, after being blacklisted by the producers due to disturbances at the previous year's CodeCon. Do you mean to say DDT could be wrong about his rights as a member of the public wishing to attend an event "open to the public" on private property? (Those of us who went were subjected to his rants about being Gandhi vs. Hitler, as he stood in front of the venue for 7 hours, protesting his PNG status. We hear lawsuits are pending.)
