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Do you agree that there is a difference between what the government stipulates you are free to say and what a company would like you to be free to say, if they

Do you agree that there is a difference between what the government stipulates you are free to say and what a company would like you to be free to say, if they had their way? If so, then isn't the difference between the two covered by the protection of free speech? The company would like you to shut up, like pressure groups would like you to shut up about certain things, but they can't make you shut up, because Big Brother is protecting you, because it has decided that this is a kind of information that you are allowed to publish. Isn't that protection of free speech?

anamax 17y ago
> Do you agree that there is a difference between what the government stipulates you are free to say and what a company would like you to be free to say, if they had their way? The question doesn't make any sense. Free speech is a right of "owners". I'm free to blather on and on about MY stuff. Companies have no way to intefere in that because they don't have police and stuff. Governments do. I don't have any free speech rights WRT stuff owned by other people. Suppose that I worked at Google. It's not a violation of my "free speech" rights for Google to refuse to publish Google's stuff, whether or not I produced said stuff for them.