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European here - I don't think I have free speech like US Americans and I wouldn't take it as a gift.

… yet the European mind desperately wants to believe it has the same kind of free speech as the US, despite endless evidence to the contrary.

Imperial arrogance. All societies regulate speech. The U.S. regulates speech. We do so in a way different than the Europeans. Our way is not objectively the best way nor is it something that every other society ought to strive for.

Americans don’t seem to understand that their way isn’t necessairly the ideal.

The author is Danish.

So. He parroted the points made by Vance. That he is European does not dispel the idea that this is imperial arrogance.

Difficult to take these types of assertions seriously at a time when the US government is purging all sorts of scientific, historical and statistical information from government websites because the latest person in charge and his minions don't like it, or find it more convenient to not have deal with what it means.

As a European I see nothing to envy in what the US currently hold up as supposed free speech.

Glad people like you can tell Europeans what free speech means. May I suggest you educate the likes of Elon Musk first? As he tends to take free speech that criticises him not very kindly. Particularly when it happens on Xitter.