do you think freedom of speech should apply to a private membership forum?

[Deleted]

as the title asks, do you think it applies or do you think it should apply if it doesnt already?

[Puupi]

No.
/10chachacha

[Kujako]

Of course not, that would be stupid. Freedom of speech goes both ways, you can not compel someone to speak just as you can not compel them not to. Forcing private groups to carry content they don't want to, would be the former.

[Zoranon]

Of course not.

That would cause it to stop being a freedom and becoming an entitlement.

[Lagwin]

Lol...nope.

[hrugner]

No, unless the forum advertises itself as a free speech forum or otherwise attempts to gather users under false pretenses.

[Zoranon]

As this guy says, and pretty much sums it up.

Also, again, freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence. Too many people hide behind their keyboards thinking they can shout damaging/hateful/inciteful statements and not have action taken against them.

Freedom of speech is freedom from consequences from the state, any other definition is simply wrong.

[Deleted]

Yes. Government has no business interfering with what forum owners allow to write.

[Sunseeker]

No, that would be stupid. You couldn't operate any kind of private business if those businesses weren't allowed to control what "speech" went on onsite.

[Dezerte]

Should I be able to barge in to a wedding and sing "Work Bitch"?

Yes.

[Deleted]

No.
/10chachacha

Yes, censorship all the way baby.

[Kujako]

Yes, censorship all the way baby.

Can I come over to your house and write on your walls? If not, why not?

[schwarzkopf]

OP - if I'm in your home, can I say what ever I want ?

Private forums are just that - someone else's 'home' ... their rules, that's it.

[Aggrophobic]

as the title asks, do you think it applies or do you think it should apply if it doesnt already?

Nope. My forum, my rules.
If you want to cry like a baby, anonymously, online go make your own forum.

[Bakis]

No thnx, its toxic at it is.

[Zoranon]

No, you can say what you like, but if you incite to hatred, or incite to riot, or flat out make untrue statements at the detriment of character, you must expect to pay the consequences. Sure, the men in black coats won't come to you in the night, but you can be prosecuted or held accountable. Not a hard thing to realise.

By this logic, you have freedom of speech in North Korea too.

[Deleted]

Can I come over to your house and write on your walls? If not, why not?

What a terrible comparison. My walls are not meant for being written on. It doesn't matter what you write on them. That's a graffiti. A forum is meant for writing stuff on it. So just think about what you said there for a while.

You can however come over to my house, knock on my door and ask me something. I won't censor you.

[Sam the Wiser]

MMO-C, nurf this!

[Deleted]

OP - if I'm in your home, can I say what ever I want ?

Private forums are just that - someone else's 'home' ... their rules, that's it.

Of course you can. Why wouldn't you? I mean if you insult me, we're probably not gonna be friends anymore, and you will eventually have to go. But if someone is a christian or something and doesn't like it that I say something he finds blasphemic and throws me out saying "my house my rules", he's a dick and can go fuck himself.

[Independent voter]

Of course you can. Why wouldn't you? I mean if you insult me, we're probably not gonna be friends anymore, and you will eventually have to go.

Then you are censoring what I have to say.