How is burning a book an example of "free speech"? Its not speech, its a physical action.
free speech is a Common Law concept, in Continental Europe they typically use broader terms which makes it either less relevant or irrelevant whether something is speech or another way of expressing an opinion. German has Meinungsfreiheit (freedom of opinion), Spanish and French have libertad de expresión and liberté d'expression (freedom of expression), and the Scandinavian term yttrandefrihet (Swedish) and ytringsfrihed/t (Danish/Norwegian) also means freedom of expression.
So I guess child pornography is also freedom of expression?
Alao aren’t there all kinds of laws against women wearing hijabs. I guess their “freedom of speech” doesn’t count. In fact these days when people talk about freedom of speech it really boils down freedom of speech for angry, bigoted white men. No cares about free speech for the rest of society
All of the examples you've brought up (porn, libel etc) are things that cause real harm to people and are therefore not covered by freedom of expression. Burning a quran is asshole behaviour but doesn't actually harm anybody. Not the same thing at all.
This is your brain on Canada.
