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If it’s a government service (like power and water in many cases), that’s why freedom of speech as a right exists - to protect you from government retaliation f
by 542458 6y ago
If it’s a government service (like power and water in many cases), that’s why freedom of speech as a right exists - to protect you from government retaliation for speech. For mobile connectivity and internet, similar rules apply if the service is a common carrier which recognizes the fact that while private, these organizations operate as government-allowed monopolies.
For groceries, that’s a private business. If you run into a grocery store and cause a scene or do something the owner doesn’t like the owner can remove you. There are fairly narrow exceptions to this, such as how you can’t usually be discriminated against for being a member of a protected class.
Freedom of Speech in the US was never designed to protect you from other people, it was designed to protect you from the government.
- sneak 6y agoNo, the 1A was designed to protect you from the government. "Freedom of speech" is a separate matter entirely.
- 542458 6y agoThat’s fair, I should have written that.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoI think we both have an understanding that a person should not be left without essential services or be punished without some kind of due process. If so, the government centric line of argument does not get you anywhere, because there are many essential services are not government owned or controlled monopolies.. My electric, water, internet and mobile suppliers are private Same goes for the bank. There are only a handful of companies in each category in the country, and they could wake up tomorrow and remove me from their network. You can either have personal liberty, or oligopolies with contracts 'we can remove you at any time for any reason'. Not both.