I hate bullies as much as the next person on HN, but I'm deeply unsettled by youtube's recent efforts in the direction of manufacturing consent.
There may have been the word shit in my comment. But it was polite and constructive. Meh. Makes me not want to bother and I don't.
On the other hand it is nice that their comment section isn't as toxic as it once was.
We have restricted the constitutional rights of corporations in other cases e.g. utilities, though. And we can do it again.
Discrimination by companies toward the public is covered mainly by Civil Rights Act (or the Americans with Disabilities Act in the case of discrimination based on disability).
Okay, but that's not the first amendment. That's the Civil Rights Act, IIRC. And I think it'd be difficult to prove discrimination in this case.