[teh_infallible]

[flagged]

[cyberax]

In general, Europe does not subscribe to the US absolutist version of freedom of speech.

At the same time, most European countries are also way more resilient against authoritarian takeover.

[louthy]

‘They’ literally didn’t.

[altcognito]

They who and what?

[deadlocked]

They’ll give you a small handful of examples, of which a number occurred in the UK (famously not a member of the EU), most of which were actually arrests for incitement, and of the remainder the majority were thrown out before ever going to trial, or subsequently on appeal.

Very few of the cases they present will have involved citizens being murdered in the streets by the government for exercising their absolute right to free speech.