@glynmoody Well, one could argue, the USA's focus is freedom of speech.
OTOH, we have learned here (sadly the journalists have left out the legal details), it's actually illegal to confront somebody in public with a properly spent conviction in Austria. (A former politician mentioned that during an interview, cough, and nobody corrected him, and actually, the media actually stopped mentioning his former glory.)
But then we do give notorious criminals new identities so they can have a life.