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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.

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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.

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.

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

the purpose of a system is what it does

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

Counterpoint to the general practice of ever using that phrase:

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

myth <-> reality

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

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