The 1st Amendment only says the government won't interfere with free speech, it says nothing about private matters or message boards.
If you come into my home and go off on a rant, I am well within my rights to make you leave. You have no rights to say anything you want in my house, I can chuck you out for insulting my dog. Same thing on a message board, most boards make you acknowledge a user agreement that usually says something along the lines of "if we don't like what you post, we can delete it". And there's nothing the government can do in either case.
Even the government has its limits on what free speech is. Things like yelling Fire! in a theatre or certain types of hate speech will get you crossways with the government, you can't falsely say that you are in law enforcement, any number of instances where it's illegal to say certain things. Try making a joke about carrying a bomb in the security line at the airport and see where the 1st Amendment stands on that issue.
Don't fret, you're not the first person who has confused free speech with the rules of a message board.
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