Comment by intended

Deciding what a company should say, or behave about speech, is subverting THEIR freedom of speech.

This is why the no asterisk position sets itself to implode.

The core defense of Free speech, one of the better articulated points is from Oliver Wendell Holmes. He articulates that free speech serves the search for truth, but the search for truth via the competition of ideas.

>that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas – that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market,

This was his articulation in a sedition case brought by the government against citizens.

It is specifically in the case of government using its power to become a player in the market of ideas.