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Hello! Totally correct. AirVPN forums ("News", "How-To" and "Databases") are technical and service forums where a new thread can be started only by AirVPN staff. "News" is restricted to announcements and news regarding AirVPN and its infrastructure, "How-To" is restricted to guides for the customers, and "Databases" pertains to geo-routing db as well as residential ISPs around the world, to report their behavior and blocks against VPN or Tor. So they are totally inappropriate for any "free speech" purpose. The community forums are a gift of AirVPN to the community, mainly managed by the community itself with self-proposed, voluntary moderation. AirVPN basically provides the infrastructure and cover its expenses. Ads are forbidden, netiquette is enforced, but we do not monitor these forums closely, except for "Troubleshooting", dedicated to technical problems and their resolutions, where we can intervene (if we have the time) before the professional support team is involved through a ticket. However most problems are resolved by the community itself without our intervention. Of course you can't abuse the community forums for generic "freedom of speech" as they would lose their purpose: community member support by other community members. They could also become unreadable if all topics were allowed! In the community forums you also find the "Off-Topic" forum where you can post various arguments, even not specifically related to AirVPN. Ads prohibition and netiquette enforcement stay even in "Off-Topic" of course. More in general, we provide you with an infrastructure to aid free speech trough a layer of privacy and even anonymity, as anonymity as been recognized both by the UN and by the USA Supreme Court as an essential tool in order to exercise freedom of expression and information. We also support or supported monetarily other tools which aid directly freedom of speech, such as PeerTube, Mastodon, Tor, and organizations which support freedom of speech (for example EDRi and EFF). All of the above is in accordance with our mission https://airvpn.org/mission : it's not in our mission to maintain and deliver directly tools to exercise freedom of expression, but it's in our mission to "Deliver a service capable of providing a strong anonymity layer in order to exercise the Right to Remain Anonymous (*), which has been widely recognized as a key to freedom of speech". Specialization is essential in this case given our resources: do one thing and do it well. If we dispersed our resources in more and more projects with too many purposes, we might end up being ineffective in all areas. Kind regards