The first amendment protects citizen speech from the government. It does not protect speech from consequences or actions by private individuals or companies.

And free speech does not begin and end at the first amendment. A company can violate your ability to speak freely without also violating your first amendment rights.

Freedom of speech is infact dead. When the government and corporations are in bed with each other, that’s a convenient way to separate actions. And as we’ve seen in so many other ways, the government loves to use corporations to do the things that they “aren’t allowed” to do, because tech moves at light speed compared to laws