'Let Them Vent Their Spleen' - Free Speech and its Limits in the United States
Lorenz Langer · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2009
In the following paragraphs, I will try to chart a passage between American hyper-bole on free speech and the stereotypes cherished by Europeans. Hopefully, I will be able to demonstrate that free speech protection in the United States is not necessarily flawless. But neither does it correspond to the simplistic and undifferentiated approach of European lore.