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Sure, "Google" as a private entity can curtail freedom of speech on its platform. It becomes less clear when Facebook, Twitter, and Google are effectively public goods.

Except they're pretty clearly private companies, not Public Goods. And as such, they can do basically whatever they want about speech on their platforms.

At which point does a service offered by a private company become a public good? There was such a transitioning point for electric power, for telephone service, etc. Will it occur for social media? And if so, at which point?

The government I think could possibly use the commerce clause to impose obligation on a corporation certify its ranking algorithms which could lead to some extremely fun results.

A law that prevents google algorithm to (not)take truthiness into account would probably be constitutional.

Google is a person, in the eyes of the law[1], and search results are it's speech (IIUC).

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#Legislati...

You misread the parent. It was not arguing that the government can't restrict Google's speech. It was arguing that Google can restrict speech on its platform, which is true.

I see.