>> Big businesses can threaten free speech when they accumulate too much power. For Google, that moment has come. I agree, Google has enabled far more politica

>> Big businesses can threaten free speech when they accumulate too much power. For Google, that moment has come. I agree, Google has enabled far more political free speech than it has suppressed. On the often-misunderstood idea of freedom of all speech, Google certainly has the right to suppress the speech of its employees in certain scenarios. That has nothing to do with freedom of political speech, the storied american ideal. In this case, this man learned a very important lesson most of us should learn much younger than him: freedom to speak does not include freedom from repercussions (AKA don't bite the hand that feeds if you want to be fed, real basic stuff here) Only political speech is a protected class, and it is only protected from government intrusion, not private.