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Consumer protection laws are really alien to folks from the states it seems.
You really don't know what you're talking about.
I bet you'd also argue that there is "free speech" in the UK, where a billionaire can still literally sue someone into poverty for accurately describing them. Or the same in Germany, where an advocate against the Palestinian genocide was arrested for "denying Israel"
I'm not from either of those countries, are you a person that likes to put words in other people's mouths? 'Cause it sure as fuck sounds like you do.
I tend to speculate negatively when people hurl unfounded insults without disclosing the reason for their perspective.
I encouraged people to not assume that their local regulation's are "better than the USA" because the same greed that causes so much waste in the USA is also present in literally every human country. And you decided that this meant my country doesn't have consumer protection of any kind.
If it makes you feel better, tell me what country you are from and I'll take the time to look for an appropriate example of your country fucking up in a way that wouldn't happen in the USA.
Belgium, good luck. I don't need to know what country you're from. Your ignorance is telling (but it's also bliss, so lucky you).
You're right, it's hard to find distinct history for a middle European country that was a footnote for most of your small and young country's history.
But the internet provides.
Even if we exclude both your country's precursor states and the various wrongs attributsble to the European Union you were substantially responsible for, Belgium:
And, while I'm neither a lawyer nor sufficiently fluent in French or German to read your laws directly, it sure as fuck looks like you've got the same sort of repressive defamation laws that let JK Rowling bully Amnesry UK into apolgizjng for accuratky describing her.
http://legaldb.freemedia.at/legal-database/belgium/
Based on your country's recent "hard-right" swing, you might acthally see your own neo-autocrat soon, who would absolutely weaponize those laws if they haven't already started.
If truth and honesty are not both separately prefect defenses to accusations of defamation, you don't have free speech in the ways that actually matter.