I'll let the "magazine/board" part go for sake of argument.

We are indeed bound by the laws of the U.S. There is no law in the US that says a privately owned entity (magazine, newspaper, company, etc) must allow unrestricted speech at all times. There is also no law prohibiting the formulation of codes of speech and/or conduct by private organizations. Indeed, as far as I know (and I haven't studied recent case law on this, all attempts to overturn such "speech codes" on first amendment grounds have been thrown out by the US courts.

I know from other posts that you're talking about the 1st Amendment. Read it. "Congress shall make no law..."

Textually, the only entity that can violate the first amendment is the federal government, although judicial review has expanded it to state governments as well.

[This message has been edited by SuperSlug (edited 08-15-2001).]