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Could you elaborate how the U.S. doesn’t have free speech?

It’s illegal to call for boycotting Israel in many US states [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws

>There has been debate over whether the laws violate the right to free speech and organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) have challenged many of them in court cases.
Which countries in your opinion does have free speech?
Crickets
Freedom of noise might be more descriptive than freedom of speech, in so far as the Western democracies are concerned.

In the US unlimited money has unlimited political power, so free speech, is irrelevant to power distribution, although it might have some academic or personal value for some.

In the USA, speech is free, but you are not free of consequences for said speech
Which is the same thing as speech not being free.

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