> On a different note, Obama, the ex-president with theoretically no official power, is calling up CEOs privately to get them to behave differently? Then its a

> On a different note, Obama, the ex-president with theoretically no official power, is calling up CEOs privately to get them to behave differently? Then its a private citizen calling someone in their network. standard 1st amendment stuff right If its making a speech about it in public, again perfectly above board. Threatening to use executive power in private, very much not. However the USA is arresting people for organising protests, so that whole freedom of speech thing has gone a bit stale, alas.