We all have a right to speak and a need to be heard. But those are not the same things. Since I don't have an inherent right to your attention, I can only satisfy my need to be heard by attracting an audience. Which means tailoring my speech to the audience I hope to attract.That's why FR is so valuable as a moderated forum; I can post here and hope to attract an intelligent adult audience because the adolescent stuff which repels intelligent adults gets culled out here. But that means that I don't have a right to post here; I am priviledged to post here while my writing is congenial to the moderators to whom Jim Robinson gives the editing authority.
If I didn't like that I'd have to find - or create - a forum in which I was comfortable, and which gave me a lively prospect of being heard.
Au contraire and I beg to differ, my friend. But you are getting hung up on words. That is what the special interest groups have done. They have twisted words to suit their own needs-which are usually quite perverted. Our Founding Fathers provided a sense of order for us to follow, and that sense of order has all but completely, gone out the window.