I agree there is certainly more than one factor and no place has 100% of them perfect, but that doesn't make an individual factor any less stifling - just perhaps it's outweighed by good approach in other factors.

Maybe the thing that might equal this out most is the US and EU seem to be equally as interested in censoring and limiting models, just not for Tiananmen Square, and the technology does not care why you do it in terms of impact to performance.