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>US is pretty much the only country where this stuff is unlikely to happen

Not really, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law

Edit: reading the replies, some users seem to have lost their reading comprehension skills, the US is not the only country where this would be unlucky to happen.

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Your link only refers to religious sensibilities, and I specifically mentioned secular sensibilities as well, precisely to preempt this sort of retort. For example, France is marked green in your link, but it very much does exactly what I said in my original comment: prosecutes and punishes people for their literal speech. Here's an example high-profile case from last year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60022996

Can you name a single country in the world which has similarly liberal free speech norms to US? Something close to the Brandenburg v Ohio standard? I'll wait.

>Your link only refers to religious sensibilities

Yes because that's the topic and "US is pretty much the only country where this stuff is unlikely to happen" is simply wrong, about the rest of your comment you could be right or wrong but I honestly don't really care.

Not really, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_Unite...

Can you name even one case?

Better to link directly to [0], which lists a few cases from a long time ago, but overall the situation in the US looks pretty good. In the rest of the world however...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_St...

Your link indicates the US has no blasphemy laws, btw.

I think GP point is that it's not the only country where this could not happen.

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