One thing I've noticed across many, many boards and forums is the common belief that all boards are forums of free speech. The attitude seems to be because a person is allowed to post to a forum they can say anything they like. When they are censored, blocked or banned they are slighted as if their opinion and statements held some special value. Well folks forums and boards are not havens of free speech. Most serve a specific purpose and are run by individuals; private citizens. The owners of the forums and their appointed administrators can censor or ban anyone at any time for any reason or no reason. Don't think you have some legal recourse and threaten to sue it only makes you look like an idiot. Calling the admins names because someone was banned or agrees with the ban demonstrates your ignorance of the nature of private ownership. Governments provide freedom of speech. Private citizens do not and are under no obligation by law or otherwise to accept any statement made on their board or forum as free speech. There seems to be a hippie attitude on the Internet that because it is accessible that everything attached must be. It reminds me of a line from a song called Signs, "...And the sign said trespassers will be shot on sight, so I jumped on the fence and yelled at the house,' What gives you the right? To put up a fence to keep me out or keep mother nature in...'." Of course this song was popularized in 1970 by a Canadian band and was a commentary about exclusion. This particular line challenges private property as we know hippies had a general tendency to prefer communal social organization (probably because none of them had any money and hoped to mooch off another hippie). The point is simple, the right to ban someone on a privately owned board comes from control of the delete button and no amount of arms reduction talks, or delete button races or fear of delete button extremism will force an owner to give up their power over their property. [highlight]If you don't like how a board is run go start your own.[/highlight] It won't be the first time.