Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5785339-20190405192539/@comment-17725354-20190422224244

@Snowdonia-alberto: That is a common misconception about "free speech." I don't know the precise details of the constitution of the country you live in, but in the U.S. and the "free countries" I know of, the constitution only guarantees that the government will not infringe on your right to free speech. For example, the U.S. Constitution states that “Congress [the legislature] shall make no law...abridging freedom of speech.”

That means that most services you use and the companies you work for are free to block you, fire you, etc. and remove the offensive material ("artistic" or not) without violating the constitution because they aren't the government.

You also agreed to Fandom's Terms of Use simply by using the site and again when you created an account. The terms prohibit the addition of what Fandom deems to be "obscene" or "offensive" material to any of its sites.

I'm not commenting on the moral validity of the decision to lock LyricWiki, but Fandom isn't violating the legal rights of you or the artists who made the removed material. Please don't perpetuate that misconception; it gets a lot of people needlessly upset.