This is from last May, he was rehired in July.

http://cartoonistsrights.org/monsanto-mocking-cartoonist-ric...

I'd love to see this guy do the cartoons on the web, free from corporate oversight, and make a shit ton of money telling it how it is.

Should say (2016), this happened a year ago.

Freedom of the press threatened not just by government censorship but by monopolistic corporate censorship, viz. threats of pulling of advertising.

Yes, it is entirely legal, but that does not change the effect on the freedom of the press.