America has a robust public square because American guarantees freedom of speech - unlike Iran, which never respected it.
The European Commission fined Elon Musk's Platform X under the Digital Services Act, and X is suing in the General Court of the EU.
For decades, university faculty stifled free speech and actively promoted viewpoint uniformity, not diversity. That might now be changing.
Free speech has never been free and always suffered from harassment. But today harassment has given way to violence.