Author: Bryan Hofmann
Date: 10:48:18 06/19/04
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On June 19, 2004 at 12:27:32, Russell Reagan wrote: >On June 19, 2004 at 10:21:16, Bryan Hofmann wrote: > >>The server is located in the USA and the first amendment gives US citizens >>the right to free speech. > >Your free speech is not protected here. What is protected by the first amendment >is the free speech of the hosts of this website. If the owner wants to post >unpopular political views, he can do so all day long. If any other member in a >non-owner capacity wants to post unpopular political views, the owner can kick >that member out. After all, it's his server. He can just as easily pull the plug >from the wall. If he wanted to ban people with red hair, just for fun, that is >within his right. He may take some heat for how he runs his website, but it is >his freedom of speech that is protected here, not yours. > >If you ran a web server program from your computer, you could start a message >board and post whatever you want, and ban whoever you want. Then it becomes an >issue of your free speech. > >In reality, there may be some other issues involved. Maybe the company you buy >bandwidth from doesn't want to be associated with you, and they cancel your >service. That's not violating your free speech. The details could get >complicated, but you get the basic idea. I am fully aware of this, I stated the 1st admendment rights are protected in that I can't be prosecuted from my ideas/opinions (and yes there are things you can be prosecuted for like yelling fire in a movie theatre). The owner of the board a full rights of restricting or not allowing me to use this forum, this has nothing to do with the 1st amendment rights.
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