What is wrong with them?
M 2TG0
Europeans unironically think they have free speech
Jeremiah Roberts
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Ethan Russell
>Europeans unironically think t(...)
We don't.
Did you know we now have censored a passage of Dante's Divina Commedia where mahoma is mentioned?
Next step: censure all instances of the word negro in Spanish literature
Adrian James
"Free" speech obsession is an American phenomenon. Not even the UK is that autistic about free speech.
Samuel Gonzalez
Nobody thinks that. Redditor types will even proudly tell you about how it's a good thing.
Chase Long
you don't have free spech either because there are taboo things that can get you fired and ostracized
Ian Baker
Try to say anything about black people or your masters in Twitter and see what happens, burger.
John Reyes
The government can't do anything about it. In pretty much every other country there are things you can say that you'll be fined or imprisoned for. Your countries have social ramifications too but that's not free speech.
Lucas Bennett
Grayson Flores
>Not even the UK
The UK is one of the worst offenders for persecuting speech they don't like. They're a dictatorship.
> Redditor types will even proudly tell you about how it's a good thing.
Redditor types will say Germany and the UK have free speech, and that the government imprisoning people for things they don't like is "hate speech" which doesn't count.
Lincoln Cook
I don't understand how other euros don't understand this and how fucked we already are. Instead of assuming the situation and considering doing something to solve it, they just cope saying 'america is worse'. We truly deserve what we are getting.
Xavier Bennett
Your corporations are an authority and arm of the administrative system of the US establishment just as much, if not more, than the legal government. The media should actually very well be considered a superior entity to the government in the current system.
Levi Reyes
>We truly deserve what we are getting.
America deserves what it's getting but not for the same reasons.
Angel Fisher
Is it different here?
Leo Stewart
Yeah which is weird in the us corporations have more power than the state. Like here cancel culture doesnt work since the employer cannot fire you for shit you post online since there's protections against stuff like this
Ian Lewis
No, all western countries have the same system, and none of them should be considered free. Indeed, I think things like "free speech" and the romantic American ideal of liberty are physically impossible.
Austin Long
>but not for the same reasons.
Ultimately is for being harmless and manipulable sheep, both of us.
Owen Robinson
Corporations can't throw you in jail, kraut.
Camden Hughes
I've heard the horror stories from the UK but I don't know what Americans can say that would be legal here.
Joshua Bennett
Corporate activity still punishes you for breaking the informal set of political laws imposed on you by society. You do not need to be in jail to be persecuted or otherwise suppressed by the system.
Robert Allen
>but I don't know what Americans can say that would be legal here.
Become a popular figure and start publicly disparaging muslim refugees and homos.
Michael Sanders
You cannot get fired even if you get a sentence over some hate speech stuff. I know we have our issues but the cancel culture is much worse in the US and you dont even have similar hate speech laws.
Andrew Ramirez
If you think simply not being in jail qualifies as being free, you have yet much to learn about the world. Ask yourself this: How many more people would share their controversial opinions if they were not punished by corporations and their peers for it? Is there not oppression occurring here?
Thomas Gonzalez
you will be ostrasized but not thrown in jail for the latter, the former is quite common
Dylan Edwards
I'm not saying cancel culture is not a problem, but there are people who have said things which would send them to prison in Europe and they ended up fine. You can't literally cancel somebody to death.
Steven Anderson is a good example. He's been permanently banned from the entirety of Europe and almost every other country on the planet, but he's rich and married with kids and it hasn't harmed him. The media or corporations can do nothing.
Jose Turner
Do your police just not enforce their laws? It is illegal in Sweden to do those things. Either way, even if they don't actively enforce it, they absolutely would if the government decided it didn't like somebody.
Camden Bennett
>Steven Anderson
Why you guys have so many schizos?
>Steven Lee Anderson (born July 24, 1981) is an American preacher and founder of the New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist movement. He is pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona. He advocates for the death penalty for homosexuals and prayed for the deaths of, former U.S. president Barack Obama, and Caitlyn Jenner. He produced a documentary titled Marching to Zion in which he "championed a wide range of antisemitic stereotypes", according to Matthew H. Brittingham of Emory University.[1][a]
>He has been banned from many countries, including Jamaica, Canada, the Schengen Area—which is made up of 22 of the 27 European Union countries, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Jaxon Wilson
it's not against the law to disparage, no
Matthew White
Yes it is, the Swedish government punished an old woman for disparaging refugees. And he convincted a pastor once for hate speech against gays.
Dominic Cooper
we're just cool like that