So what if the government partners with all the large tech companies to have them voluntarily enforce restrictions on speech? Oh, you're free to say whatever you want, just not online. Or on the airwaves. Or in public parks, which were recently put in control of a private management company too. You are free to stand in your bedroom and talk to the wall. Just don't talk loud enough that your corporate landlord kicks you out for a noise violation.
There is over 2 centuries of legal jurisprudence on that question. It's not a novel issue.
1. Religious institutions should have the same rights to funds as any other school.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/supreme-court-religiou...
2. Job Bias laws don’t protect teachers in religious schools.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/job-bias-catholic-scho...
In affect, government funds are used to support schools that are allowed to discriminate.
It’s not just LGBTQ rights. Some religious schools think that interracial dating/marriage is a “sin”.
Or say you live in a small town with one grocery store, and they don't like your BLM tshirt so one day they ban you. Private company, they can do that. But now where do you buy food?
Or your Brand X car breaks down, but Brand X decides they don't want you in any Brand X dealerships anymore, but the problem is your car needs a specific diagnostic tool only available to Brand X dealers.
The examples are endless
I must be missing something because I cannot imagine why everyone is so tolerant of companies having nation-state level ability to ruin lives, and to routinely face no consequences when they do so.
I am not sure if I am attacking a straw man here, but it sure sounds like you claim that buying one way flight ticket is very difficult compared to getting rid of FAAMG in your life?
I understand there are other complications involved in moving abroad that just the flight ticket, but I still think that the big global corps are much more difficult to get rid of than my government. Including the fact that they very much keep communication with my friends at least as much hostage as my government if I decide to move away.
Sure you can fly there, but your tourist visa will run out in a few weeks and they will kick you out if they can find you. So now you're on the run, and good luck finding a job, renting an apartment, or getting health care with an expired tourist visa.
Oh and if you're an American, you won't be able to open an account in a local bank because American banking laws control all banks everywhere.
The above are generalizations and some countries are easier to move to than others. And all of them IMO are much more difficult than deleting Facebook.
I'd be on the next flight out if there was some sort of undocumented American community somewhere in Western Europe or something. But that simply doesn't exist.
Is there actually something in the Federalist Papers talking about free market competition? I'm not aware they considered this at all.
A Twitter mob doesn't have any objective power to prevent anyone from finding employment. They do, however, have free speech rights which include the right to communicate with someone's potential employer and argue that they should not be hired. If literally every employer decides not to hire someone based solely on what that mob says, then (notwithstanding how ridiculous that scenario would be in real life) that's possibly a labor rights issue more than a free speech issue.
