Are you in the habit of just making shit up as you go? >The EU has no real free speech protections Yes they do[1] and even certain EU bodies expect that the l

Are you in the habit of just making shit up as you go? >The EU has no real free speech protections Yes they do[1] and even certain EU bodies expect that the law as proposed will likely be invalidated by courts[2]. >and many countries have been developing increasingly aggressive speech laws and police. I'd say invasive, rather than aggressive, but yes. This has always been true and will likely always be true. Governments try to expand their own powers. News at 11. >You can be arrested or fined for speaking objective truths in countries like Name a country in which this doesn't hold true. Revealing classified information, trade secrets, court-protected information, doxing, obscenity, ..., will get you in trouble in many places. >like Germany or the UK The UK isn't even in the EU anymore. In fact while they still were in the EU, the ECJ ruled parts of their Investigatory Powers Act unlawful[3]. I don't know how that adds up with the picture you're trying to paint. [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:12012P/TXT https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:12... [2] https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-8787-2023-INIT/en/pdf https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-8787-2023-I... [3] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/dec/21/eus-highest-court-delivers-blow-to-uk-snoopers-charter https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/dec/21/eus-highest-cour...