This piece is the offspring of CBS cancelling Steven Colbert and ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
What is free speech, anyhow? The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads in part: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” To make a point of it, the Constitution only forbids Congress (or the federal government) (the 14th Amendment added state governments to who was forbidden) from abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. But freedom of speech only protects a speaker from government prosecution, it does NOT protect him from being fired by a private corporation, for any – or no – reason at all.
