> I don't want to live in a world without American freedom of speech - where we can't be blunt and speak our minds.
I take issue with this. I'm not hugely adept at history but from my understanding there has never been a time where you can just blurt out a communication and have it be "accepted" by society - this seems to me very American and appears very detached from reality and real world experience.
Yes, you are accountable for the communications you make, whether via keybord, orally, or any other way.
Yes, you can be killed for the communications you make - this is not new, neither shocking and has been a staple of humanity from the beginning.
Yes, you will be cancelled if your joke is taken out of context, or if some journalist finds a tweet and somebody is on an airplane and at the center of a multi-national storm [0].
Textareas like the one you typed in to make your comment give you a lot of freedom, but also a lot of power, and humans are learning with great power wields responsibility. People will take offense at your crass jokes and delete you for it, perhaps it's best to step away and not click "reply" afterall. Your conversation with a friend may be recorded or overheard, perhaps somebody is stalking you and waiting for a golden opportunity to "get" you, perhaps it's possible to form a narrative the media can use that's pieced together just to convince a group then let it spread like wildfire.
None of these things are new to humanity, and sometimes there's just nothing within your power you can do to stop it if somebody is motivated enough to want to inflict harm upon you.
That's what the world has taught us lately, more people would be wise to learn and take notes.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIP6fI0NAI