Excuse me, what? I think you should step out of whatever propaganda feed you are sucked in.

Literally all of the EU have a massively lower rate and in none of the countries it is remotely illegal to criticize the government.

In Germany for example, you have multiple programs on TV dedicated to make political satire of current politics. On basically tax funded TV.

And you won't have your name published for criticizing the white house [1] like in the country some people apparently unironically think of as the place with the most personal freedom.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/15/white_hous...