[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Seriously though I've had to say this a couple of times over the years; This is a private site not a public forum. It is privately owned. It is the internet equivalent of "someone else's house". When you're in someone's house, they can kick you out for whatever reason they want. You don't get to sit in someone's living room saying "I have the right to my opinion!!" .

If the entire TiBB staff decides they're Vegan tomorrow, and TiBB is now a vegan forum that bans anyone who talks about eating meat, that's entirely their right and their business. If they want to ban every single non-mod member in the next 5 minutes and have a private little chat forum, with no warning or explanation, that's entirely up to them. They can set WHATEVER rules they want and it is up to members whether or not they want to play by those rules, leave the forum, or flirt with breaking the rules until they get a ban. Fairness doesn't come into it. Free speech doesn't come into it. We're playing in their house, with their toys, and if we don't like the game, we can go home.

So in theory they can say black is white. That's all well and good but the owners don't do it for nothing. They must make money from it and this must be related in part to numbers of posts/members etc.

It wouldn't be a very nice place to visit if discussion was so limited by 'red-tape' and unreasonably restrictive/unfair rules it would likely effect membership and I would imagine that would not be in the site's best interests.