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Because you can go to prison for saying things.
You can in US as well, even the 1st amendment only protects you so far. We just disagree with where that line lies.
[Edit] Ref: https://news.yahoo.com/french-woman-faces-trial-insulting-16...
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Europe doesn’t have free speech because -
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...
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Sure. And what OP is proposing here is communism ? Do you believe your life experience allows you to predict the future?
Idk, you seemed to be claiming that communism works, I'm telling you it doesn't and that your example is true only because of the free market around these communist-owned restaurants. That's it. Edit because I can't reply: because I hate it when people say that communism works even though they never lived through it and have no idea what it actually is to live in it. It's terrible, an entire country of multiple milli…
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Europe doesn’t have free speech because -
October, 2018: "In Europe, Speech Is an Alienable Right: [the European Court of Human Rights] upheld an Austrian woman’s conviction for disparaging the Prophet Muhammad." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...
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In most EU countries, you can’t publicly insult the country politicians.
Citation needed.
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October, 2018: "In Europe, Speech Is an Alienable Right: [the European Court of Human Rights] upheld an Austrian woman’s conviction for disparaging the Prophet Muhammad." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...
Another account created 3 hours ago. Very interesting
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In most EU countries, you can’t publicly insult the country politicians.
That's absolutely not true, definitely not in the criminal sense. Politicians are always allowed to bring a civil suit against you over the things you've said, but the same is true in US.
> She stands accused of "insulting the president of the republic" and will stand trial on June 20 in Saint Omer, the prosecutor said.