This doesn't really answer the main question above. How is this not evidence of a corrupted market system? Free market assumes that buyers can make their own d

This doesn't really answer the main question above. How is this not evidence of a corrupted market system? Free market assumes that buyers can make their own decisions. This is a fundamental requirement. If you are "free" to decide something, but then your decision gets overridden when it doesn't suit a particular third party, you aren't really free. The mechanism of enforcement and excuses given afterwards don't change the fundamentals.