Where does a chat room administrator's right end and a member's freedom of speech begin?

Say a member of an Online chat room had their account suspended for "flaming." Who is more in his/her rights - the administrator because he/she feels the rules if the chat room have been violated, or the member who feels his/her right of free speech has been violated?|||Come to my chat server and make your own chat room, bring your friends and you can talk about anything you want in your own room so long as you don't break any u.s. laws and you don't advertise other chats. Java users can use the link http://crysys-chat.net/java and IRC users can use crysys-chat.net 6667|||When you are participating on someones private server that they paid to run then you must abide by their rules and regulations, Apon signing up to use his chat service you had to agree to his rules, by using the service you are by decree agreeing to abide by them. Freedom of speech rights has to do with what the government can't do to muzzle you. If you don't approve of the way he runs his own chat room then start you're own, this way you can do what is legally permissible.|||In general, freedom of speech refers to the right to speak as you will without inteference by the government. If this particular chat room is operated by the u.s. government, then your question would make sense.





If I operate a web site, I can admit or exclude who I want, or regulate speech as I wish, just as I could do so in my own home. I have the right to exclude you from my home for any reason at all, and can do the same with my server.|||Pre-determined conditions are usually established an accepted by the users. How that access is in fact used, would be at the discretion of the administor. Find a different provider, or service that appeals to you--that's the meaning of the free market, which Anti-Trust laws in fact serve to sustain.|||The administrator can do whatever he wants because chat rooms are owned privately and not by the government.|||There are no "rights" online. The chat room is not the government, therefore they can do whatever the hell they like with your speech.|||The decision rests with the person who owns the server