> Most (if not all) EU countries protect the freedom of speech in their constitution.
Not particularly well, as it seems when compared to the US.
You can just look at some of the laws that they have regarding speech, on their books, to see how there are definitely more things that are restricted that you can say, in comparison to what it restricted in the US.
Not in comparison to the EU.
Most people can agree that restrictions on speech in the US are much less strict than those in the EU.