"In general when most people speak of free speech they are concerned with political speech," exactly so. And by that definition the UK does have free speech. A

"In general when most people speak of free speech they are concerned with political speech," exactly so. And by that definition the UK does have free speech. As do a lot of countries. Most of the democracies do. You brought up Hate Speech laws as some kind of free speech exception. I quote "the rest of the world doesn't have free speech". as for, "And I do agree that all campaign finance law is an act against free speech." that wasn't what the article implied so you can't "agree" ;-). But sure you can have an opinion. You are bringing in some custom vague definition of "free speech" (to claim the USA has some kind of monopoly on free speech) which doesn't stand up to logical scrutiny. I am done with this thread. (I notice the article is dead too . reminder to self. Don't feed the troll)