Thanks for your opinion! I sympathize with much of it.<p>I hope everyone here understands that I was not intending to be condescending, nor do I look down upon others for their opinions on this eternally divisive issue.<p>The main purpose for my comment &quot;Free speech, European style&quot; was simply to try to encapsulate what I was seeing in a short, &quot;cute&quot; phrase, with a subtle hint that free speech with restrictions is not really free speech. I do not wish to make value judgments about the various policies in this area, I just wanted to highlight the oxymoronic nature of the notion of &quot;free speech with restrictions&quot;. Incidentally, even the United States contains restrictions on free speech, albeit to a lesser degree than perhaps any other nation.<p>With respect,<p>trav4225