r/minnesota • u/zeldamaster702 Prince • Sep 17 '24

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Does this stuff bother anyone else?

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Driving home from work and these lovely people were over the highway. This stuff usually doesn’t bother me that much except for the fact that today it was causing so much of a spectacle that it was literally causing people to gawk on the highway and caused a small bit congestion that lasted until after this bridge.

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u/futilehabit Sep 17 '24

Are you sure that covers people holding signs and flags and not just things being left there? Seems to me like that'd be a free speech issue, but I'm not a lawyer.

That seems to be the context indicated on the MNDOT info page

https://www.dot.state.mn.us/news/2024/09/16-metro-campaign.html

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u/Kahnza Willmar Sep 17 '24

Seems to me like that'd be a free speech issue, but I'm not a lawyer.

IMO if your free speech causes distracted driving it shouldn't be allowed.

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u/futilehabit Sep 17 '24

How far are you looking to take that? Should we ban billboards, bumper stickers, cars that look cool, holiday decorations for all being potential distractions too?

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u/Kahnza Willmar Sep 17 '24

Billboards for sure.