[trod1234]

You are wrong. It is not 'American' anything.

This is plain corporate malfeasance and corruption.

If anything its highly anti-American, borderline communist/state regime.

American values include many things, one of the more important being free speech.

Such a violation deserves reciprocity, stop blaming issues on the wrong things.

[saubeidl]

Sure, that is the de-jure definition of 'American' that a lot of good folks in the US also adhere to - I know many of them personally :).

However, that's not the de-facto definition of the US as a geopolitical player right now and Europe can't afford to pretend those two are the same.

[thejazzman]

American values are what they are. Whether they're perceived that way is something else. And whether the people who hold those values are hypocrites or have any self-realization is irrelevant to the fact that the people believe they have and practice free speech.

[trod1234]

It appears you misspoke. We are clearly talking about two different things.

[cat_meowpspsps]

the purpose of a system is what it does

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

[0xBDB]

Counterpoint to the general practice of ever using that phrase:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...

[exceptione]

myth <-> reality

  (50) In the same vein, study the right wing concept of
       "free market" as an exercise.