Quote (timmayX @ Apr 16 2016 08:09pm)
These countries don't have the same freedoms as the USA. Can't really compare since in this case there is literally a law against free speech. There are also cases in Scotland of people being jailed for publicly supporting closing borders to migrants. Scottish authorities actually publicly said on Twitter that they are monitoring and will enforce anything they deem offensive.
More important are any attempts at censoring free speech in America.
We can say that free speech should be a right for everyone. But since it is not in written law in most countries, the ones that have it are the exception not the rule.
People on this subforum love to make shit up about how things are going in *insert European country* because they think they can get away with it due to pard being mostly American hence in their bubble...not me though.
But I mean, even if Scotland censored free speech to some extent, their police don't have the right to lawfully detain a Scottish citizen for an unlimited period of time without charge and simply under 'suspicion' of wrongdoing. They don't constantly surveil internet and phone records of citizens anywhere near to the extent as in the US either.
In pretty much every way possible, Western European countries have a much greater degree of freedom than America does.