I think he sort of assumes that there are things you can post on Facebook/Twitter in the US, with no real consequences, but not in Europe. AFAICT the people in

I think he sort of assumes that there are things you can post on Facebook/Twitter in the US, with no real consequences, but not in Europe. AFAICT the people in the European city where I live generally expect that they can post anything on Facebook/Twitter with no significant consequences. They can't. In the next largish city to the southeast someone did post whatever he wanted, got dragged into court and ended up having to pay, even for the retweets. But he did not expect that and that's significant. His understanding of free speech was that he could post whatever he wanted, and the local reaction in that city showed that many, perhaps most people were as surprised as he was. So I don't understand what aspect of free speech people in the US understand that Europeans don't.