... interested in commenting had our
forum taken away ...

sigh

It always amazes me how confused a lot of people seem to be about this concept.

There are business entities who pay for server space on the Internet, and they have mechanisms in place where people all over the planet can post messages and/or pictures for all the rest of the world to view. They are not under any obligation, however, to allow anything to be posted by anyone at any time. Quite the contrary, they are often under a number of legal and other obligations to their investors and business partners to specifically restrict certain kinds of information. And, even if they weren't, they pay the server bills, they buy the hard drives, they employee programmers and designers to bring this service to us; they can define their own rules, and they do.

Nobody took away your forum. Feel free to pay for your own domain name, server space, and telecommunications lines and say anything you want, and invite anyone to participate in any way you dictate.

You have the right to speak your mind. Nobody but you has the responsibility of paying for your soapbox.

Jack