Originally Posted by Luap

And I could give you five examples, or hundreds (plus one) of examples, of people speaking freely and thus confirm what I believe. Does that make me more right? Clearly not.

All you're showing is that Americans are not free to say whatever they want wherever they want, which I acknowledged when I said Americans are "mostly free" to broadcast our opinions in public and protest our government and laws. And while examples of censorship exist, you're simply looking for what you want to see and not acknowledging the whole picture. Clearly, free speech exists in the United States; I encounter it every day in newspapers, when I'm in my classes, when I read this website or many others. Have you ever even been to the US? Anyway, I clearly cannot say that Americans have 100% free speech (you've already proved that wrong), but I never said there was "no censorship." That would be absurd to say and impossible to prove; even if official censorship didn't exist--like the defamation laws I mentioned, or national security laws--there would still be an untold amount of self-censorship occurring.

Btw, you just suggested that American media are censored and that newspapers like the Washington Post are wrong. Not only is it strange that the censored American media are reporting acts of censorship, but also it is even more strange that you are using these sources as actual evidence of anything.