But not in America. America even has a law giving that notion teeth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act > The Sec

But not in America. America even has a law giving that notion teeth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act > The Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage (SPEECH) Act is a federal statutory law in the United States that makes foreign libel judgments unenforceable in U.S. courts, unless either the legislation applied offers at least as much protection as the U.S. First Amendment (concerning free speech), or the defendant would have been found liable even if the case had been heard under U.S. law.