In the UK, they don’t have freedom of speech, and up to 30 people a day (meaning 12,000/year) are arrested for the crime of posting or sharing “grossly offensive” content online.
In the US, we have freedom of speech enshrined in law—you can’t be arrested for saying politically inconvenient or offensive speech—but that freedom doesn’t protect you from the decisions of private companies. So if you’re a dickhead online, you can still be prevented from being hired, or lose the job you currently have.
There are a great many problems with the US, but I typically don’t trust such indexes to accurately capture them. I strongly suspect political bias, along with them possibly just choosing bad metrics (it is not a particularly legible problem, so I’m going to be suspicious of practically any metric)
Press Freedom Index here: Note the relative positions of the UK and the US :)
EDIT: Not trying to start a bad argument here, but if you’re allowed to say on-the-one-hand, I shall say on-the-other.
There are a great many problems with the US, but I typically don’t trust such indexes to accurately capture them. I strongly suspect political bias, along with them possibly just choosing bad metrics (it is not a particularly legible problem, so I’m going to be suspicious of practically any metric)