Quote Originally Posted by Chimensch View Post
I understand that what you are saying is correct but it doesn't seem right. Let's imagine, for the sake of argument, that there were only one employer. It follows that there would be no free speech regardless of what the government can or can't do. This is not such a far fetched idea as it sounds. In many industries, we have a very few employers and a person with controversial views can be blacklisted within his industry. Such as Norman Finkelstein in academia or Greg Palast in journalism.

You mentioned that corporations can restrict speech with very few exceptions. One of those exceptions is probably labor union organizing, right? What are the others?
Labor union organizing is actually one of the areas where they have to be careful.

A typical example is a corporation can have a policy against inappropriate sexual speech or any kind of hate speech. Totally sensible - the corporation is slowed if a someone is running aroudn spreading noverl ideas about religious or racial groups, and female employee fuctionality is impaired if they are being hit on, or if they have to talk to this person and not that person because that person if going to make a comment aboutt their skirt.

For people operating in the real world trying to get real things done, the goal isn't to maximize freedome of expression on things that are divisive and irrelevant to the business' function.