> Whatever you are free to say in America, you have said many times already, and the marginal value of exercising that freedom yet again doesn’t seem so high.

> Whatever you are free to say in America, you have said many times already, and the marginal value of exercising that freedom yet again doesn’t seem so high. But you show up in China, and wow, your pent-up urges Except that one country has built up a perception of allowing more freedom of speech than another. The analogy doesn't cut to the core of the issue. And the whole "pent up" phrasing makes it sound like Sam was just waiting to express some horrible things and couldn't do it here and had fly to China.