Should Verizon be able to hang up your calls if they don’t like who you’re talking to? Clearly, rights and needs extend beyond the basics of food, water, and s

Should Verizon be able to hang up your calls if they don’t like who you’re talking to? Clearly, rights and needs extend beyond the basics of food, water, and shelter. Preventing corporations from dictating what information you’re allowed to access and who you’re allowed to talk to is as essential to a free world as anything else. For better or worse, these “for profit companies” have become the de facto replacement of the town square, and if we cannot have free speech on these platforms then we cannot have free speech at all, practically speaking.