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The idea of free speech? Seriously? The idea is that the individual is free of tyranny to express ideas and viewpoints that run counter to authority. It has never had the concept that you are free to say what you want where you want. That is why free speech demonstrations have to happen on PUBLIC property. The side walk, a park, outside a publicly accessible government office. The instant you cross the threshold into a private space, the owner's free speech protections override yours. They have the right to moderate the speech that is expressed in THEIR space. Tyranny, by definition, can only be exerted by government or government-like entities. The owner of a private space does not have the authority or power to be tyrannical. That term may often be thrown around inappropriately, but when it comes to these conversations, we should always be cognizant of the actual realities and definitions of the terms.

Not to put together a strawman, but if it worked the way you are expressing there would be nothing stopping Burger King from hiring a bunch of people to go into McDonalds with signs and bullhorns to express that McD's is shit and BK is better. If McD's did not have the right to mediate the speech that occurred in their property, then they could not say or do anything. It is the same as if someone came in and started making racist remarks openly about patrons and employees. They have the right to remove this person. The same principal extends to online communities. If someone is exercising speech that the owner of the community space does not want spread on their platform, they have the right to remove that speech and the person exercising it.