[gdhbcc]

Probably in much the same way people today cry out about freedom of speech in china, while labeling restrictions on speech at home as acceptable (or not even restrictions at all!)

At the end of the day all of these high minded ideals are just excuses to justify ones own actions and world views.

[altcognito]

Corporations deciding not to carry your message to a large audience and the government sending you to a political gulag do not seem comparable.

[kingkawn]

That seeming difference in methodologies of disenfranchisement is where empires are made and broken

[chillwaves]

Which restrictions do you mean? There are very few instances of speech regulated by the government. Mostly threats and incitement of violence.