How come America, the land of the Free™, has one of the most censored internets worldwide?

Muh freedum

As others have said, surveillance practices are not the same thing as censorship. For the most part there is complete freedom of speech or expression. Unless you live here you don't really know.

It's very naive to think that a country is about freedom of . Anarchy is purest form of freedom. So in end maybe we don't really need full freedom though. Not until technology reaches to the point where it becomes self sufficient on human needs.
However just like with USA, many other western nations are about capitalism and corporatism. Those limit the rights and liberties of the people in general, specially those that are less fortunate. That goes for limiting internet too. Most of the reasons aren't so obvious. However most of them come down to profits in end. I mean in murrica profits equal freedom, right? Atleast for the rich.
Lets be honest though, usa has never been the country of freedom really. It has always been a marketing tactic. Specially these days almost all other western nations in Europe are more free on individual freedoms. Healthcare system in USA is one of the many ways they limit your rights and freedom.

Ofcourse what is best to do is always a big debate among everyone. General populace isn't ruled by what is right though.

The main issue is nobody gives a damn about internet privacy and security. The next generation of voters might care slightly more(computers have integrated into this one more), but most of us still don't give a damn or are too STUPID to fight censorship and net neutrality issues. Citation?

SNAPCHAT EXISTS. "Your image shows up for a while and is gone forever!"

THAT ISN'T HOW INFORMATION WORKS. IF THE MONITOR IS DISPLAYING AN IMAGE, THE COMPUTER PUT THE IMAGE INTO ITS RAM. If you can SEE the image, so can a CAMERA.

Not to mention the fact we're being constantly tracked and profiled by advertisers(why do you think Google gives us so many free services, exactly?) and the FBI can tell your ISP to look up EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE ONLINE whenever they feel like it.

Also, we're definitely not the most censored. We have buttloads of tracking and people trying to break our security("backdoor" in encryption). But not censorship. Unless you mean Facebook censoring news based on political agenda.

Net Neutrality is bad for business. And business is everything, right?

Because we have shitty people run are country . If Clinton wins it be 100 times worest, she want censor everything

Is this a joke topic? You compare USA internet to Cuba and North Korea, where internet is ILLEGAL in private homes? Seriously?

The image is wrong, Mexico have a weak legal structure about internet and telecom... and human rights, and consumer, and legal in general.

yes that's sad

Technically they have very low censorship over there but it's no secret certain groups (anonymous, 4chan etc.) do the dirty work online for the FBI. F.e. Change.org, Wikileaks and different independent news outlets. On the other hand whatever press agencies like SITE report over the middle east gets portrayed as facts even tho it's run by former Mossad member Rita Katz, every news channel in the west copy pastes that information and you get mass propaganda. It's not censorship but people get censored by being portrayed as outcasts/loners/weirdos for having their own opinion about things and questioning whatever info is being fed to us.

If they're censoring the internet here then they're not doing a very good job

surveillance is where the US really shines

Just my two cents as I only skimmed the links (hard to do more on my phone).
It seems more like they are saying the internet is policed rather than censored. You can find pretty much anything, but it's behind a paywall.
It's certainly something to think about though.

It seems to me that you just like to argue and enjoy opening threads about controversial topics so that you can argue with people.

How much did Putin pay you to write this BS?

No i dont want to buy your sister for bottle of vodka. Thou thanks for offer.

ROFL. US regulations may negatively impact members of RsF. So their opinion is what it is. Map clearly shows that they only care about surveillence of their activities, and ignore all other so called "govt spying" regulations. Attaching Enemy of Internet label to the US on that basis, well, I can only say "it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog"

Censored because Hilary Clinton.

Food for thought

From one of the first sentences in the first article "very little government mandated technical filtering occurs in the US."

i wont even get started on this one.....it basically boils down to we have a corrupt system here in the usa.

my porn comes in fine, im not bothered in the least about all that grand "internet censorship". (i think its time for a big mac in the greatest country of world). "internet censorship"... what a laugh

i let you know how i feel about that big mac with extra "max" sauce

America was free, but now because we are spoiled and lazy, we have just decided to let the corporations take over the country. Believe it or not, corporations are interested in censoring the internet if they think it will make them more money, and they do.