You're the first person to bring the US culture war into this conversation. Every other time the US has come up, it's either to note the exceptionally strong legal protections we have or to bring up the relatively limited legal restrictions we do have (EDIT: all in the context of this story about India).

Actually, it was the American left (Tipper Gore and friends) who led the censorship movement of the 80s and early 90s. I am in my late 40s and I was quite liberal in my youth and I don't remember any censorship from the right.

In the 1960s/1970s the left had complete free speech on campuses. It was perfectly acceptable to be a Maoist. Real leftists like Chomsky have never been de-platformed.

I'm curious to know what the right effectively suppressed in 1980-2010, which is the time frame you mention. Those were pretty free decades.

I do not recall censorship. Also, the current "left" is not really left outside of cultural wedge issues. They are elitists and academics with useless degrees protecting their income streams and they despise the actual working class.

There is governmental censorship and private censorship. People complaining about censorship in the US are complaining about private censorship. I also don't think anybody in the US is saying that the censorship we have here is worse than censorship experience experienced by others. Censorship in India doesn't really impact the average person in the US but the private censorship in the US does.