The back story is two college thugs, thought it was their right to steal from the bakery. When the bakery owner filed charges with the police, Oberlin College backed the students calling the bakery racist and withdrawing their longterm support of their bakery products, thereby defaming the bakery. You can guess the race of the thieves, same race that always feels they are entitled to take what they want, causing financial damage to businesses. The college and the thieves apparently felt that their race entitled them to “harmlessly” take what they wanted. Most of the Oberlin College students come from wealthy families, are liberal, and feel entitled, I surmise from the newspaper reports. I am happy Oberlin College had to pay for defaming a small business, and wrongly backed the thieves instead of disciplining or expelling the students.

A store is “a place of public accommodation” unlike a remote service provider like Twitter or an ISP. There is a legal definition for places of public accommodation that varies in detail from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but in general, there are facilities that must be provided and legal requirements that must be adhered to. It is, for instance, illegal to discriminate on race or religious grounds. This gets murky when the accommodation is offensive to the provider on moral or religious grounds, as we have seen in the wedding cake cases. So, it’s a private business and it’s not… The Oberlin college case, though was purely a case of defamation.

The private companies in bed with the government gets the same perks as a 21 year old blond at a lawfirm