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@Velocio
You seem very confused, you conclude there can only be absolutes. Are you Tommy?
Only today we have a high profile example in the news of someone coming to a similar conclusion and now enjoying 18 weeks in prison.
Just because technology allows anyone to communicate doesn't grant them the right to say or do anything. The old adage remains true that free speech doesn't protect someone if they run into a theatre and shout "Fire!".
Yes anyone can set up a website, but you'll discover if you do that you are responsible for it. Legally so, and people have ended up in prison or bankrupt for running websites.
The moment you allow comments and end user input various laws apply. As a website owner you must, by law, take reasonable steps to protect users, not spread malware, not allow race hate, not participate in fraud, and the list goes on.
Then you'll find that the communities themselves will establish their own set of rules to protect them from whatever disrupts their community.
Somehow you think that the people who run website have no right to ban people, when the law dictates that they must do something. And you think that communities who want people banned have no right to ban people, even though that is the will of those people.
As I said, you seem very confused.
Plus, if it's so easy and you desire a place where no-one can ban you... Set up your own forum. As you say, the tools are there. Be sure to never ban anyone though, that's against your beliefs.