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Old Mon Dec 29, 2003, 08:02pm
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Originally posted by ref18
And just a bit of a story about a board that I used to be a member of. We were told that this forum was set up in order to give us private scripts for programming satellite cards. This promise was not kept, and several of the moderators left and started their own board taking many of the members with them. This adminsitrator, deleted everyones account who went to the other board, I guess he took this as a personal insult. As this was a paid service, we complained, and we got a full apology. I guess the moral of the story is that although you may not like what is said, we all have the freedom of expression and don't let the power you have get to your head.

And thanks to a recent supreme court decision the board i was talking about no longer exists and i now have to pay for the cable i recieve.
Regardless of what some may think, freedom of expression and freedom of speech don't exist in private forums. Unless this is run by the government (and it's not), this is a private forum. As such, the owners can pretty much do what they want (or assign people to do so). If they don't like what you say, they can delete it.

The supreme court decision you refer to is not about free speech or free expression but about theft and piracy of work owned by others.
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