> Just countries do not punish mere speech with imprisonment, let alone life imprisonment.
They do. They all do. People are constantly put in prison for illegal speech. Spies have been executed for speaking classified information. People are regularly arrested and imprisoned for communicating illegal material online. Others are jailed for speaking to certain other people, especially where planning future illegal activity is itself a separate crime. And a significant number of people, even in the US, are subject to no-contact or anti-harassment orders forbidding them from certain speech. At least one former US president has been (is?) subject to a court orders how/what they can say. Freedom of speech is a right, but nobody should believe it not subject to innumerable limitations.
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They do. They all do. People are constantly put in prison for illegal speech. Spies have been executed for speaking classified information. People are regularly arrested and imprisoned for communicating illegal material online. Others are jailed for speaking to certain other people, especially where planning future illegal activity is itself a separate crime. And a significant number of people, even in the US, are subject to no-contact or anti-harassment orders forbidding them from certain speech. At least one former US president has been (is?) subject to a court orders how/what they can say. Freedom of speech is a right, but nobody should believe it not subject to innumerable limitations.