Here's why I disagree. You have NO right whatsoever to the expectation of "free speech" on that board, this board, or any other forum. You post there, here, or anywhere, at the host's pleasure. And whether you like it or not, if the host doesn't want your post to appear,
for any reason whatsoever, he has a right to take it down. You, of course, have a right to boycott the site, write nasty things about it somewhere else, or whatever your heart desires.
But the erroneous idea that you can express any opinion you like on a website with a moderator or host is absurd. You have no such right whatsoever.
When I ran Don's Domain for several years, the same policy prevailed. And do you know what? I probably could count the number of posts that I deleted on the fingers of one hand. And do you know why? Because everyone who posted there knew the above rules and knew that if they posted personal insults or shit of any kind, I would delete the post five seconds later. So after a while, people got the idea that it was useless to post such crap, because it would never see the light of day.
Everyone is lucky that Norm is the webmaster and not me, because I'd delete within a matter of seconds of seeing them, myriad posts that still stand on the site.
So, count your blessings!
Don