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The right to Constitutional free speech is to protect you against Government retaliation or retribution not a private company.

I disagree. The intent of the founders was that speech not be censored, and in their time period they could only imagine the government having the power to accomplish this.

The fundamental natural law concept is that public speech would prevent despotism, and censorship will create dictatorship. This remains true regardless of how speech is censored.

Especially when the service is not required or Government sponsored.

It is now required. These communications companies have created a public commons where the public now gathers. It is little different from the public moving out of the town square, and flocking to some man's land. The fact that they are now on his land does not give him the right to censor what they have to say.

It’s funny, we are for a baker to turn away a gay couple for his right to associate (which I agree with the baker) but are against a company wishing to operate as it chooses.

Not at all. Communications companies are a special case, because communications is a public need and necessity, and these companies have taken advantage of communications chokepoints which have been formed by natural occurring monopolies of being the first to stake out territory in the previously new internet communications system.

This fellow "JK Brown" aptly described what is happening here.

" Commenting on another blog today, I came up with this description of what Facebook and Google have become
Seems to me it is a property rights problem. People enter into the Facebook or Google plantations and start to sharecrop advertising. Google owns the land and the user doesn't even have rights to finish the growing season. If the user displeases the lords of the manor, they can be thrown off the land and all their improvements either confiscated, burned or thrown off with them.
Sharecropping is a crappy way of life, but if it is all you got, you make the best of it. But people seem to have lost sight of the fact they have no enforceable property rights. They live by the leave and the whim of the landowners. And the landowners or the personal guard and retainers have decided they don't want certain people, who think differently, on their land.
For survival, you may have to work sharecropping on the internet. But you should not lose sight of the fact that your life is tenuous and take precautions. Perhaps we'll move into a republican period and the feudal system will be overthrown even if we have to take the heads of a few kings and nobles.