“Freedom of speech” as a slogan is not useless, of course. People more or less understand what the core of it means. Not so much an absolute thing, as a direction. Or an ideal to be followed, though never reached practically. And of course, everybody has their own ideas of the limitations.

Does Western Europe have free speech? Does Israel? Does US? Compared to dictatorships, yes. Compared to the ideal, no. Compared to each other? “Interesting question.” So, let’s keep in mind that the concept is pretty much incoherent, although political concepts don’t need to be coherent.