Macron conflates speech with action—"hitting" is already illegal under US law, that's not a free speech question. The actual disagreement is narrower than he frames it: US doctrine draws the line at incitement/direct threats, French/EU doctrine extends it to "insulting" and vaguely defined harms to a "common framework," which is precisely the part that gives governments discretion to criminalize dissent. The slippery part isn't the principle, it's who defines "respect for the common space."

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me...

"Its not freedom if it doesn't have a regulator"

Only government can define truth

Bitcoin enters and says: hold my beer

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Take away his freedom, he’s insulting Americans

Dios mio!

What a pussy

That sentence makes no sense.

Moron. Yeah, I said it and meant it as an insult.