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No, that's the first amendment. Free speech is also a broader principle that the first amendment applies by restricting government power.

Thank you! I feel like everyone forgot their middle school civics lessons, the amount I hear that line trotted out these days.

And companies that value free speech don't censor opinions regardless if them censoring is technically legal.

It's a bit more than that. Censorship violates freedom of speech, but it does not imply imprisonment

... and commercial entities will not be proponents of free speech, as long and as far as that's legal.