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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Not on a private forum they don't. Free speech has to do with the government not stopping you from speaking. Free speech doesn't apply to private property.
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I realise you would get kicked out, but you could exercise your freedom of speech nevertheless. So what if you get banned or kicked out?
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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's a privately run forum; its owners can remove whatever posts they wish. What law would you think would say otherwise?
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What I said if of course hypothetical, but for the sake of argument let's take a newspaper or a TV station. Privately owned.
The owners of such media institutions do not have a free reign to decide what can be said and what cannot be said without any checks and balances.
This is where the line does get a bit thin.