Quote Originally Posted by spockman View Post
Is Europe better then? Where you can't even deny the holocaust in half of it and even in countries as westernized as France they can fine you for criticizing some of their leaders/laws? Britain isn't so bad, but that's not all of Europe. Is South America or Asia in general better than us in regards to free speech? I should think not. But the U.S. and Canada as a whole are better than Europe as a whole. Australia's hate speech laws are more restrictive than Canada's. And the U.S. doesn't even have hate speech laws. If you reject my claim that North America in general has the best freedom of speech, then please give me an alternative.
I think not being able to deny the holocaust pales in comparison to people being arrested for not obliging the authorities when they were told they were only allowed to practice free speech where nobody could see them.

I don't really get why you're insisting on taking the averages of entire continents anyway, I don't think fricking plate tectonics has much to do with any of this.