>Private entities have no legal obligation(thin "town hall" argument or not) to respect free speech, and are absolutely empowered to police content as they see

>Private entities have no legal obligation(thin "town hall" argument or not) to respect free speech, and are absolutely empowered to police content as they see fit. Indeed, thats what this whole discussion is about: creating laws to protect individuals speech from corporations. Laws are not static. Private entities also had no legal obligation to serve black people or gay people not long ago, but we changed that too. As your XKCD comic is merely arguing from a position of conservative legal authority, it could have applied just as well to blocking black and gay people when that was not protected by law.