it's dangerous to equate freedom in freedom of speech as having less restrictions, because then the only speech you will hear is the one from people who can recover from whatever bullsh1t they spit. just like "free market" needs strong regulations to prevent monopoly and price gouging, freedom of speech should be about levelling the playing field and not as an excuse for bad takes. in that regard, united states isn't even the most free in terms of speech, it only has the least restrictions. indeed you see cases where the supposed land of freedom severely limits free speech such as dmca (specifically the anti-circumvention law) or charging edward snowden for feloney.