seems to only happen if you actually criticize the government but you really shouldn't be doing that as a tourist/visitor/outsider in the first place.

In America you can make fun of the president and not fear repercussions but to me isn't all that important compared to the limitation in personal freedoms that doesn't exist in the so called "dangerous/enemy" countries.

For one, there is no fear of a certain ethnic groups known for committing the most violence against one group, there is no censorship of publishing those numbers and discussing it where as in America you would be labelled a racist because the mere existence of data is contradictory to its ideological narrative. HN is a very good microcosm of this "American freedom" where opposing/uncomfortable views (due to its truthfulness) are simply hidden from view. For example, there seems to be someone who was upset by my original comment about AMWF couple phenomenon in Eastern Europe and is now just routinely going through all my comments and flagging them presumably to get me to shut up (lol).

This encroachment of our right to know the right data impacts everybody in different ways and because people just think "oh poor them im not in that group so im fine" its extremely easy to manipulate public opinions and ultimately steal from them and their subsequent generations without them even knowing by getting to have an object to feel superior about even if it means poverty. One of your American presidents actually mentioned this long time ago.