In a US context as a US citizen I'm a big free speech advocate and am against people censoring that in the name of things such as "hate speech" etc.. Outside o

In a US context as a US citizen I'm a big free speech advocate and am against people censoring that in the name of things such as "hate speech" etc.. Outside of the US though I have mixed emotions. The reason for that has to do with the effect that the Internet has had on cultures throughout the world since the smartphone and social media really caught on. Before social media and and the smartphone revolution I remembered seeing more of a difference of world views, culture etc. when I traveled to Europe, Africa, Asia etc.. Today, due in large part to the Internet, things are much more homogenized and that diversity seems to have been traded for ideas that tend to favor the Anglo/American world view. While we may moralize and say that some countries are better for adopting ideas etc. that we think are better, people in these countries might understandably disagree with all of that being positive. Thus censorship is viewed as a way to try to limit this outside influence. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I can understand the why...