Tbh anyone growing up in (democratic) Europe would consider the US to be extremely censored compared to Europe simply because most obviously censored media is TV and that's very censored in the US and mostly uncensored in Europe. From an outside perspective that censorship is hard to square with the 1st amendment but I think americans just grew used to that.

Some European countries have written constitutions and some don't. But within the EU, the EU charter article 11 has the role of the US 1st amendment as being a written consitution regulating free speech https://fra.europa.eu/en/eu-charter/article/11-freedom-expre...

How many Americans own an over-the-air TV station? How many Europeans have been arrested for "offensive" remarks on social media?

There's no contest here.

What are you talking about? People can subscribe to Playboy Channel or whatever and watch that on TV with no censorship. The only real restrictions were applied to broadcast (OTA) channels due to limited spectrum. Even that is now effectively moot as broadcast TV is dying off.

Yes I’m talking about the regulation of broadcast media on the airwaves. And how it is a bit weird that it has a carve-out for censorship there.

Yes the “problem” is slowly disappearing but from a legal curiosity standpoint of the past decades that doesn’t make it less interesting that it existed.