You're taking the USA as an example, and we all know the current situation is really fucking bad and not comparable to other western countries.

Your “freedom” to “speech” and “democracy” are constrained within a clearly drawn boundary, the boundary of which is drawn by the ruling class.

Sure, it is, but my point is that it's less restricted.

Notice how a Westerner does not risk anything by truly believing in and expressing things like “china censorship bad arabs/muslims are dirty terrorist scum and need to be wiped off the map these russian orcs need to be wiped off the planet”, but a non-Westerner risks absolutely everything by even slightly hinting at a criticism towards Western imperialism/wanting better conditions at the cost of the ruling class, perhaps even in their own damn fucking country

That's just a massive lie. It doesn't work this way, unless maybe you're in a far-right wing country like the USA rn. I'm in France and we have a lot of far-left people, communists and stuff, none of them are in jail. Saying such things as "bad arabs/muslims are dirty terrorist scum and need to be wiped off the map these russian orcs need to be wiped off the planet" would clearly get you in trouble, especially the "bad arabs/muslims are dirty terrorist scum" because it can't be argued that you were only talking about soldiers etc...

Any other country outside the West engaging in censorship is either a) a dog of the West or b) protecting itself from fully succumbing into being a dog of the West.

Yea sure, it's only "you're with, or against us". No in-between. haha

I'll just stop here because there's no point in this discussion and I feel like I'm just talking to a tankie, member of lemmygrad and hexbear, that hopped on its alt account.