We hold government with highest demands for equality, we hold private individuals and fully owned businesses with most freedom to discriminate. We hold public corporations somewhere in between.
>Google's house
Sure. Nobody cared when things were being said about Egypt's Mubarak. But say something that some Google executives don't like, you are out of there.
Is there a difference between a private entity and a public corporation?
If I run my own plumbing company, I can hire my son without putting up an ad in the paper. Should a Google executive be allowed to hire her husband without putting up an ad?
We hold public companies at a higher standard that private individuals, correctly so.
What if Mead stopped you from using their notebook to write down a thought that they don't agree with?