No country has free speech. But in choosing a country, you can choose which types of speech you want to be allowed to make freely and which types you want to be protected from other people making.<p>America gets its free speech by defining the word to mean any communication that&#x27;s permitted to be free. If the law disallows something then by definition it&#x27;s not speech anymore, or it&#x27;s an exception that&#x27;s so obvious nobody mentions it. Examples: Flag burning, copyright infringement, libel, slander, threats, incitement to violence, child pornography, false advertising, revealing state secrets and trade secrets, violating NDAs, sharing insider information about listed companies. Wow, there&#x27;s quite a lot of things you&#x27;re not allowed to say in America!<p>It&#x27;s a bit like Athenian democracy where everyone could vote. Of course women, children, slaves and foreigners obviously weren&#x27;t part of &quot;everyone&quot; so there&#x27;s no need to mention them.