Family angry because supermarket won't inscribe cake to son, Adolf Hitler

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nordlead said:

SamuelRSmith said:

This corporation, shop-rite (or whatever it's called) has the sole purpose and legal responsibility to generate profit, deliver to its shareholders, and, theoretically, function in the general interest of the public (I stress the word theoretically).

only if it is a publicly owned corporation (which I don't know if it is or isn't) shopright could be a privatly owned chain, and therefore doesn't have any shareholders.

The whole freedom of speach argument that people throw out doesn't apply. Freedom of speach only applies to the government censoring its citizens, it doesn't restrict corporations from enforcing rules they want. Just like this website is not required (it is hosted in the US) to allow you to say whatever you want. Just like Neogaf censors users from typing VGChartz, shopright could too (as stupid as it would be)

Freedom of speech definitely doesn't apply here, but you can argue that they are being unfairly targeted and that their civil liberties are being violated because the company is refusing to serve them based on name.