[gabrielroth]

Just responding to your 'for once': U.S. publishers have long had this kind of trouble with Canadian obscenity standards. In many ways the U.S.'s free-speech regime is pretty broad-minded compared with other western democracies. I suspect you're experiencing a kind of sample bias, where you (as an American) hear more about U.S. free-speech violations than about restrictions elsewhere, and thus believe that they're more frequent.

[tseabrooks]

I don't think he was referring to the U.S. because of an abundance of free speech issues... Rather he was pointing out that we hear A LOT of bad press about the U.S. border control in general... (i.e. confiscating laptops)...