&gt; Your response seems unnecessarirly harsh. Please be more civil (HN strives for civility) and understand that HN has a global audience with differing laws (the parent could use this same perspective that HN is global).<p>If HN is American, the poster is American, and the subject of conversation is American, I&#x27;m not sure why we should give a damn that some other country has oppressive and censorious libel laws.<p>In Thailand, it&#x27;s a crime to speak ill of the king. In Saudi Arabia, being gay is a capital offense. I hope you&#x27;re not going to defend those just because they&#x27;re laws that exist somewhere.