[panic]

Nobody is advocating that Microsoft should be thrown in jail or taken to court. This isn't about the legal protection of free speech.

[mindslight]

I don't think anybody was talking about the legal protection of free speech, apart from that xkcd comic which uses it as a straw man to justify intolerant groupthink and corporate censorship.

In these days of digital sharecropping and social media saturation, the proscriptions on de jure government activity are much less involved with routine everyday freedom of speech.