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If corporations effectively become governments, then the amendment should apply.

What are the criteria for determining if a corporation is "effectively a government"?

Maybe if their revenue exceeds those of many governments.

That really doesn't seem like a good test for determining whether we remove a company's first amendment right not to distribute speech it doesn't want to.

The New York Times has revenue greater than the tax revenue of a few dozen nations. Should the government force the New York Times to carry any editorial anyone submits?

If corporations become governments, they can make their own laws?

They already do, just hidden under the guise of lobbying and marketing.

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