[Enterprise]

"Government officials have every right of free speech to ask private citizens to boycott things."

Government officials also have the power to punish private citizens who don't do what they are "asked." It couldn't be more clear than that. (But not to you).

[FreeReign]

Government officials have every right of free speech to ask private citizens to boycott things. Private citizens have every right to vote out politicians who advocate bad boycotts.

Government officials also have the power to punish private citizens who don't do what they are "asked." It couldn't be more clear than that.

Around you go....

Government officials have not been delegated the "power to punish private citizens who don't do what they are asked".

Cite such delegated power.

[Sofa King]

It's worth looking at the type of thing that happened to the comic book industry in 1954: Congress didn't actually pass a law censoring the industry, but simply pressured the industry into censoring itself.

In a way, it's even worse, since by not actually making it a matter of law, there is no legal recourse against it.