“Yup, and they don’t begin with controlling the seat in front of you. Your rights begin with your own seat.”
Not if it interferes with the right of the other passenger to use his space for his activity.
If it was “your space” the seat wouldn’t recline into it. Your space is the six inches behind you that your seat reclines into.
The space defined by the arc of the moving seat back does not belong to the person behind its sport.