On the Topix forums, posting news and things was a Constitutional right.

[traveller]

I know a lot of people out there miss the Topix forums, which sailed into the sunset in December 2018. Topix was the only other forum in addition to the happierabroad forum where, for example, posting warnings to guys to stay far away from all women in DuPage County, Illinois if they don't want to go to prison, as well as revealing the rules and regulations of a specific bar, nightclub, or place of business, was a Constitutional right. On the city-data forum, that exact same type of content in your posts gets you banned like you insulted their country and their dictators. Same with the Tripadvisor forums. On some forums, posts even get filtered and have to be approved by a moderator before they are visible. Even Patch is not as free and Constitution-friendly as Topix was, although one plus with Patch is that you can edit your own posts, and if an article you post gets hijacked and becomes overloaded with irrelevant replies, you can delete and repost it.

It was very possible to get posts on Topix deleted. As an example, if a restaurant discriminated against you and you reported it on Topix, and then 3 years later that same restaurant got new management and welcomed you back, when requesting deletion of that post, you simply told the Topix moderators that the restaurant is under new management, the discriminating manager doesn't work there anymore, and that there was no more discrimination occuring there any longer, and Topix deleted the post.