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[–] MouseNormal5861@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Name one non-western country with better freedom of speech.

[–] murphy_1892@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It's pedantic but there are a fair few stable and free democracies around the world as 'free as France. Namibia, South Korea, Japan, East Timor, etc.

Just wanted to point out while definitely far more common in the West, its not the only place you can find democracy and press freedom

[–] PRO2803@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] captainmystic02@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The country where the opposition leader gets arrested for taking lol

[–] zezxz@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The most worrying collapse for India is in the Security indicator category, where India’s rank is 172. This means, only eight countries rank worse than India out of 180 on this parameter. So India is worse than all in terms of ensuring security of journalists in the world, other than China, Mexico, Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and Myanmar, in that order. Myanmar is at the bottom.

The security indicator “evaluates the ability to identify, gather and disseminate news and information in accordance with journalistic methods and ethics, without unnecessary risk of bodily harm, psychological or emotional distress, or professional harm resulting from, for example, loss of one’s job, confiscation of professional equipment, or ransacking of media installations.”

Neat

[–] kratos61@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Other countries don't pretend to be bastions of freedom as if the rest of the world are primitive savages.