The USA does have limits even on free speech though.

You know that Microsoft had to pay the EU nearly 700 million dollar and had to include Firefox and Chrome in their Windows Setup process because of the EU right?

Unless you’re being ironic, you just illustrated his point.

Where is the “most of the world” you mentioned? And who’s “figured it out” that the US didn’t rescue from murderous neighbors or its own murderous self, rebuild, teach freedom, and subsidize their social models and defense?

Last time I checked, we don’t make monkey sounds at black athletes. Racism is everywhere, not just America.

Counterpoint:

Please quit saying hateful things about my country.

Full of wrong. Europe is a tinder box because PC culture has completely swept the issues under the rug. You acting like the US has bigger problems than Europe just proves the point. Your capital cities burn for weeks when there is a minor outburst.

It’s the reason your country is a dumpster fire that is divided on nearly every issue that much of the rest of the world has already figured out.

“This agreement is an important step forward to ensure that the internet remains a place of free and democratic expression,”

They’ll eventually turn into the Gizmodo network, then.

I had a German roommate and we used to argue about this. Some guy in England got charged for being racist to a black British soccer player on Twitter. I felt uncomfortable with a government policing speech online using the criminal justice system (slippery slopes and all), while he was completely in agreement that…

The reality of how effective this legislation will be.

That movie was masterful at buildup-tension-surPRISE! Skerritt inching along the dark shaft while Cartright says “Oh God, it’s moving right towards you!” He tries to retreat while his crew is pleading for him to get out and then you get a flash of the Alien!....cut to Kotto—”No blood, no Dallas...nothing” Also the…

Except your examples are terrible. TVs are a perfect example. Sure the basic television hasn’t changed too terribly much. Except now it is pocket sized, can serach the internet, play music, travel across teh world, link up to satellites, and has almost nothing in common with the giant tubes of the past. Televisions…

TV is not fundamentally much different than radio. People sit around a box for entertainment turning a knob (and eventually a button) when commercials come on. There is nothing really to understand. It takes 5 minutes to adapt. Instead of staring off into space, you stare at the TV. The refrigerator? Plug it in…

All of the examples in Matt’s write-up, TV, refrigerators, are too old. If you look at smartphones or the internet as a modern comp, they were spread to an even larger # of Americans in a comparable or shorter amount of time. That’s (hopefully) the point friedman was trying to make. Everything happens faster now.

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Very edgy, good job. But it’s indisputable that greater economic freedom improves the quality of life for everyone in a country, including the poorest; there’s a wealth of data on the subject (pun intended) on humanprogress.org.

You’re forgetting the most successful, widespread, and terrifying death-worshipping cult in modern history.