Since when does firing people constitute ownership?

I (partially) own the government (in theory, if it's a democracy). I don't own the company that I work for.

Yeah, but you're making a legal, not moral, argument. I argue that we often consider it unethical for government to silence its citizens, regardless of the law governing that country. Why we accept this in private companies? Should that be the nature of the ownership and why?

I was only addressing your use of the idea of "ownership," not the question of whether private parties silencing people is good.

Because Companies and Governments are different entities?

I can easily choose which company I want to work for, switching countries is something much harder.

A government that does not like what I say can do all sorts of horrible things, jail me, confiscate property and event kill me. Companies generally do not have that power.

I think your analogy is 180 degrees out of phase. The obvious difference is that the government works for us, and our CEO doesn’t. That’s why they agreed to part with a mutually agreeable sum of their cash - something they do not have to do. If one party fails in their obligations to make this transaction mutually beneficial, the rational counterparty will sever the relationship.

And yes, we fire the government all the time. We pay them, and if we don’t like their performance, they’re out. If they start publicly trashing us, they’re out even faster. This is why mayors have to appear meek and apologetic, instead of calling the voters a bunch of fools. Like when half of the population felt like Hillary called them a basket of deplorables, for example. Not many want to hire that person.

Ah, way to sneak some Hillary-bashing into a completely unrelated discussion. Friendly reminder that three million more people wanted to hire her than the other guy.

If your takeaway from that comment was Hillary bashing, you missed the point.

You undermined your own point because you couldn't help but bring up a partisan political point from five years ago completely unnecessarily.