Free speech does include bigotry. But also the appropriate “eww, you’re spreading hate you bigot!” reaction.

I don’t think people should be set on fire for being bigots. Heck, I don’t think they should even be fired or banned from social media for doing so. Just banning them for actual harassment or firing them for insubordination would be regulation enough.

The real issue is when bigots buy platforms and try to rebrand their bigotry as “common sense”.

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If you are 20 years old, expect to live to 100, and can imagine maybe spending $1 million per year, your maximum lifetime expenses are only $80,000,000. Once you have a large enough share of this that investment returns can earn the rest, you do not ever need to work again

The threshold for “no need to work” is way lower than $1,000,000,000. More than 12 times lower, in fact.

It’s really hard to discuss your percieved faults in either android phones writ large, google-connected Android phones in general, or Samsung in particular if you don’t ennumerate said faults.

That being said : yes, I vastly prefer Android to iPhone. The latter comes with vendor lock-in and user infantilization that made the platform untenable for me more than a decade ago, and nothing I’ve heard since has given me reason to reconsider.

If you’re all-in with an iPhone, Mac, apple watch, and the rest, I’m sure that swapping out the iPhone for a Samsung had any number of aggrivations. But faulting Samsung for that lock-in would be like blaming Valve when the LibreOffice on your steam-cube doesnt seamless connect to iCloud.

If you aren’t a historian and “don’t know about the US of A”, then like I said at the start of this exchange you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Is that supposed to be a rebuttal, or did your “6 years of history” not include how to structure an argument?

I told you it’d be simple to find something your country did worse than the USA, and I found five plausible examples, including one of the glaring eurozone issues I’d suggested before. I’m actually surprised that “slavery” and “LGBTQ rights” are plausibly on there.

I would hope that a learned historian such as yourself would know better than to assume that their country is uniqjely benevolent, but people who know that usually don’t start mounting off about foreign countries and then start sputtering when someone points out their own country’s failings.

Was your educational study an academic focus or just the primary education propaganda that every industrialized country in the world feeds their citizens?

You’re right, it’s hard to find distinct history for a middle European country that was a footnote for most of your small and young country’s history.

But the internet provides.

Even if we exclude both your country’s precursor states and the various wrongs attributsble to the European Union you were substantially responsible for, Belgium:

• has a literal king
• didnt ban slavery until decades after the USA
• lagged similarly in gay rights (albeit you’re easily on par with the bluest stars in the USA)
• let your king annex part of a foreign continent as a subservient colony (and kept that colony until the 1960s!)

And, while I’m neither a lawyer nor sufficiently fluent in French or German to read your laws directly, it sure as fuck looks like you’ve got the same sort of repressive defamation laws that let JK Rowling bully Amnesry UK into apolgizjng for accuratky describing her.

http://legaldb.freemedia.at/legal-database/belgium/

Based on your country’s recent “hard-right” swing, you might acthally see your own neo-autocrat soon, who would absolutely weaponize those laws if they haven’t already started.

If truth and honesty are not both separately prefect defenses to accusations of defamation, you don’t have free speech in the ways that actually matter.

I tend to speculate negatively when people hurl unfounded insults without disclosing the reason for their perspective.

I encouraged people to not assume that their local regulation’s are “better than the USA” because the same greed that causes so much waste in the USA is also present in literally every human country. And you decided that this meant my country doesn’t have consumer protection of any kind.

If it makes you feel better, tell me what country you are from and I’ll take the time to look for an appropriate example of your country fucking up in a way that wouldn’t happen in the USA.

You really don’t know what you’re talking about.

I bet you’d also argue that there is “free speech” in the UK, where a billionaire can still literally sue someone into poverty for accurately describing them. Or the same in Germany, where an advocate against the Palestinian genocide was arrested for “denying Israel”

Unless your country has specific laws to the contrary or is too poor/civilized to have this sort of “lazy parent” food, presume that any of the factory-made shelf-stable food in your grocery aisle is as bad as the equivalent sold in the USA.

(And find out of your country’s food laws are actually better than the USA, or just “feel” better because the same exact product can just list fewer ingredients )

Let me see if I can translate this article to a less trendy version:

.About 80% of the packaged foods marketed for children between 6 and 30 months include ingredients only used when creating packaged food at scale. Half of these either contained more fat, sugar, and salt than the WHO recommends or did not abide by the WHO’s advice to eliminate food coloring.

It’s not an original thought, but a very publicly taught one. Which was a redefinition made by some well meaning academics and activists who wanted to narrow the focus of civil rights work to the most egregious violations.

(Which would have been a laudable goal except that it makes everyone fight about what “racism” means instead of solving anything and implicitly tells poor whites that their economic oppression doesn’t matter.)