Sure. And similarly they have freedoms we don't have, and there are millions of people in US prisons who probably would be free in China. The two countries have very different political situations; it's not as simple as one being 'more authoritarian' than the other.
You *probably* won't suffer any consequences from posting that. Most people who post, e.g., "death to America," do not suffer legal consequences. But some have! The chance is not zero. A lower probability of legal consequences for speech is better, sure. I won't argue with that.
But let's not pretend it's a binary of "we have free speech and China doesn't." People are detained, beaten, and arrested for speech in the US. People are unjustly imprisoned and treated discriminatorily by law enforcement constantly in the US. It's not as simple as you might like to think.
I don't think it's that simple at all, it's simply hard to make a point in 300 characters while qualifying everything with "it's more complicated than that".
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