Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Quote Originally Posted by jsearles22 View Post

Yeah, you're right, he should definitely expect 50 large for getting hassled for a few minutes and getting back on his regular flight and not being inconvenienced at all after that.
I don't know about the proper compensation, but to give the guy $150 is LOL. The compensation here would be punitive, and not so much for his inconvenience.

This was pretty bad. It was interfering with his right to free speech and using his travel on their airline as an extortion tactic to force him to remove what they didn't like to see.

Again, an airline has a federal requirement to allow him to travel after selling him a ticket. They can't just pull this "we have a right to refuse service to anyone for any reason" crap that the owner of a local pizzeria can.

There needs to be punitive damages against a company which does such a thing.

It is also fully legal to criticize an employee by name via an internet post, provided your statement about them is true. (If your statement isn't true, it's still not a crime, but rather a civil violation which can result in monetary damages, but no jail time.)

There is no doubt that his statement was true. If he wanted to post Kimberly S's last name, that would have been within his rights, as well.

Southwest would have the right to refuse to sell him tickets in the future, but they had to honor his travel here because they had already ticketed him, and he had not violated any laws, nor was he threatening the safety of the plane or passengers in any way.
FFS, anyone who thinks this guy deserves truck loads of money needs to wipe the sand out of their vagina. Freedom of speech violated? Mid five figures? The guy was made to delete a tweet (which he easily could have retweeted later FWIW), and was allowed on the regularly scheduled flight. Come the fuck on, there is way more important shit than that happens every single day in every large city. It was at the very least a very slight irritation.

You guys are making it sound like this rogue employee was trained to do this. Like there was a company wide initiative to suppress free speech. Or to delay his travel, which didnt even happen. He got on the fucking plane. I seriously cant believe we are talking about suppression of free speech and the airlines federal requirement to provide travel. They provided travel. They simply didnt want to continue the argument on the plane so they took him off the plane for a few minutes and then RIGHT BACK ON THE PLANE. Come on.