Not sure why I'm optimistic but I tend to think the voices calling for censorship are very loud and in the vast minority.
I think you are right. In my country we brag about democracy and free speech. Reality is that we have no free speech and everyone knows that deep inside.
-the assassination attempt would be very bad if it was done to stop his freedom of expression, something they themselves punished him for a couple years earlier, hypocritical.
He criticized stuff related to Islam, someone (Maybe ISIS) tried to assassinate him. The state prosecuted him for hate speech, the silly thing was that Denmark remarked that the crime-