That's kind of a dystopian view that doesn't work in reality... The will of the people is displayed in the form of Local, State, Federal, as well as Treaty Laws... People forget that, just because the country you live in may have less restrictive laws themselves, the treaties they have with other countries (aka International Law) also come into play... A law in the U.K. can be enforced in the U.S. if the user is a citizen of the U.K. but violates said law while locally in the U.S. based on any treaty requirements regarding said law/s... There are no laws I know of, off the top of my head, that allow for the public to just waltz up to a corporation and tell them to do something or not do something, where they were then legally obligated to comply with said request...
Citizens can try to change laws and statutes with regards to what a Corporation is allowed or not allowed to do... But a corporation is typically allowed to self govern within the scope of said laws and statutes... Even if that means they create strict censorship rules with regards to public use of their systems... They are not violating freedom of speech laws, because you don't have to use their systems... You can opt in and use their systems, or you can opt out and go somewhere else... Now, if they issued a gag order for an employee not to relinquish information about something happening with in the company, or reveal what someone said in the corporation, without out some sort of legal precedence that would allow them get away with said gag order, then that would definitely be a violation of your freedom of speech, depending on location... I could go on, but then I would be definitely getting too far off the threads topic...
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