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> > I think planes are public places

> They literally aren't, though.

They literally are. They are common carriers, which is a legal concept with a lot of precedent. The UK term for this, ironically, is "public carrier" and while yes it's a privately owned it has distinctly public characteristics encoded in law that sharply distinguishes these spaces from genuinely private areas.

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The important question, though, is whether being a common carrier implies that the airlines cannot forbid customers from taking photos or videos inside their aircraft. That hasn't been established.

I think when you're asking normative questions, what you're saying is that it should be established. And that it should be established in the way that you're proposing.

You own your own words. If you think something should be the case--especially when it's not clearly already--explicitly state so. Ambiguous communication makes conversations murkier, not clearer.

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