The American governmental-regulation-phobia is just ridiculous.,(reply>), @Catriona<br><br>are you kidding? i live in germany.,(reply>), @M G it's almost as if both under regulation and over regulation are bad and prone to excessive exploitation based on greed and/or political motives.,(reply>)," @Catriona Totally not true.<br><a href=""https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297128/matthew-doyle-arrest-muslim-tweet-brussels"">https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297128/matthew-doyle-arrest-muslim-tweet-brussels</a><br><a href=""https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-facebook-and-twitter-posts-soar-in-london-a7064246.html"">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-facebook-and-twitter-posts-soar-in-london-a7064246.html</a><br><a href=""https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4292907/twitter-hate-crime-arrest-cps-social-media/"">https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4292907/twitter-hate-crime-arrest-cps-social-media/</a><br><a href=""https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2017/10/14/british-police-arrest-at-least-3395-people-for-offensive-online-comments-one-year/"">https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2017/10/14/british-police-arrest-at-least-3395-people-for-offensive-online-comments-one-year/</a><br><a href=""https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6687123/Mother-arrested-children-calling-transgender-woman-man.html"">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6687123/Mother-arrested-children-calling-transgender-woman-man.html</a><br><a href=""https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/world/europe/germany-36-accused-of-hateful-postings-over-social-media.html"">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/world/europe/germany-36-accused-of-hateful-postings-over-social-media.html</a><br><a href=""https://www.dailywire.com/news/17807/british-police-just-imprisoned-man-posting-mean-joshua-yasmeh"">https://www.dailywire.com/news/17807/british-police-just-imprisoned-man-posting-mean-joshua-yasmeh</a><br><a href=""https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-31906452"">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-31906452</a><br><a href=""https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/16/man-arrested-facebook-posts-syrian-refugees-scotland"">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/16/man-arrested-facebook-posts-syrian-refugees-scotland</a><br>I can easily find more as well. This is why Americans hate government regulations.",(reply>), @M G And that is not true.,(reply>), Our "phobia" is because we don't want to end up like Europe where saying an "offensive" joke/opinion ends in jail time.