There is no law that says they have to indulge opposing viewpoints on their web site. Free Republic bans people who come over here and spew the Democratic talking points. We call them "trolls." Democratic Underground has banned many FReepers who go over to their site and do the same thing.
If someone wants to start an anti-Christian, anti-Semetic website and ban people who wish to debate them, that is their right in the everything-goes world of the internet.
Trying to get sites shut down because you do not agree with what they say or because they refuse to allow you to debate them is not something that those who value freedom will defend. It is fascist behavior more common to the Left than here.
This was not the reason I posted, and I don't want to get off-topic, but your post confuses me.
On the one hand you say: "Free Republic bans people who come over here and spew the Democratic talking points", but then when you talk of trying to get sites shut down you say: "It is fascist behavior more common to the Left than here."
I'm not trying to be confrontational, I truly am not, but is the distinction here that the board has the right to allow whatever speech they want, and the right to censor whoever they want, but we have no right to try and shut them down?
I'm pretty sure the First Amendment extends to me as well as the managers of this or any other board. They have the right to censor and ban as much as they want, and I have every right to protest it. Nobody else has to, I just wondered if I could get some help. Apparently not.
I guess I'm just a little more offended by that anti-Christian and anti-Semetic stuff than my fellow Freepers.