One definition could be that you become a public square when you benefit sufficiently from the society in which you operate that you must correspondingly take o

One definition could be that you become a public square when you benefit sufficiently from the society in which you operate that you must correspondingly take on civic responsibility to that society. In terms of Facebook: they rake it in because millions of us chose their platform, over many others, for posting our cat photos. Accordingly, Facebook must pay something back to society. (Though perhaps the “pay something back” merely needs to be covered by corporation tax, rather than anything more special.) If the local pub becomes the de facto meeting room for the village club, and makes a killing selling them beer as a result, maybe it should be obliged to provide free parking?