In the U.S, at least you can argue that the company has some limited responsibility to uphold rights; in a company town, it is generally the case that the company town can not prevent you from expressing yourself by removing you from the place with trespassing statute [0].

As a former Torontonian, I have no faith that the council or the public will prevent abuse by Google until it gets really out of hand.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

>Over the last couple hundred years there’s a long history of towns and neighborhoods run by companies.

And how do the vast majority of those end up? Utopian?