No criticism intended.

What strikes me as odd about that is this:

- Free Speech is (over?)valued, things that are forbidden as insulting/hate-speech etc. over in DE are 'okay' and free to express in the US. Something the people I talked to were proud of and regularly pointed to as the fundamental freedom.

vs.

- Careful what you say, it might get you fired. We had the swear words discussion lately, now we're talking nipples / nudity and references to those.

I understand that these issues are not the same. It just feels like the Freedom of Speech is reduced(?) w/o actually touching the constitution, is it really still that free?