[thagsimmons]

Sorry, but this is just the kind of narrow parochialism I'm complaining about. I said "the vast majority of the world", and I stand by that - the idea that ordinary people in China, India, Africa, the Pacific and so on give one iota of a damn about US law is completely absurd. Furthermore, this attitude is a fantasy even within the Anglosphere - I live in New Zealand, and I bet not one person in 100 could give me a clear statement of what rights the 1st amendment guarantees and what its limits are, beyond the barest outline.

[int_19h]

It's a fantasy even in US. Witness all the people demanding that e.g. Facebook "respects their First Amendment rights".

[cscurmudgeon]

I am Indian, and I give a damn about US law.

> Furthermore, this attitude is a fantasy even within the Anglosphere - I live in New Zealand, and I bet not one person in 100 could give me a clear statement of what rights the 1st amendment guarantees and what its limits are, beyond the barest outline.

They don't have to. Popular culture is saturated with a low res version of 1st amendment.

What is more annoying about parochialism is every thing turning into mud slinging on the US.