In California malls and other privately owned public spaces are required to allow public speech they disagree with. There was a case of a mall using the privat

In California malls and other privately owned public spaces are required to allow public speech they disagree with. There was a case of a mall using the private property claims to stop union picketing and organizing, but the courts found this to be illegal. If the space is generally open to the public, you have free speech rights in California. This has stood for decades and has been law for longer in California, yet California is doing fine, and I would hardly consider California to be stifling free speech. Far from it. We make bakers write things they disagree with on cakes with their own hands. In contrast facebooks cooperation when hosting content it disagrees with is much more remote and requires no manual intervention.