"However, no private company owes you a thing." Technically true, but I have yet to see someone who actually believes it. Everyone has a limit somewhere, for s

"However, no private company owes you a thing." Technically true, but I have yet to see someone who actually believes it. Everyone has a limit somewhere, for some people that limit is wedding cakes for gay marriages, for others is discrimination on some certain characteristics of a person. The point is that this kind of policy at the end of the day makes our society slightly worse. "it is not the government's place to be regulating what private citizens or private companies are saying or not saying." They are doing that but indirectly as to not break any law. See the senate hearings about facebook for example. They can force that via blackmailing (if you do not restrict X we will make a law that increases your tax or responsibility for what users post or whatever, deny funding or provide funding to competitors, prosecute crimes that we ignored before, etc)