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What fall of free speech in Europe? By aggregate score about every EU country ranks ahead of the US in the Freedom House Freedom index: https://freedomhouse.o

What fall of free speech in Europe? By aggregate score about every EU country ranks ahead of the US in the Freedom House Freedom index: https://freedomhouse.org/report/fiw-2017-table-country-scores https://freedomhouse.org/report/fiw-2017-table-country-score... The US comes in at 48th. That's not because it's score is particularly bad, it's because freedom is highly valued and strongly protected in many countries. The only countries with a perfect score are Finland, Norway and Sweden.

cgag 9y ago
Actual hate speech laws, laws against holocaust denial, getting arrested for saying offensive things on twitter, that kind of thing.
areyousure 9y ago
Online sources suggest that Finland, Norway, and Sweden all have strong blasphemy and/or hate speech laws (the subject of TFA, you may note). While Norway seems to not enforce their laws, Sweden and especially Finland do.
- imartin2k 9y ago
  Not sure about this law but in my experience at least, in Sweden (where I live), talking critical about religion in public conversations is way more the rule than (in my experience) elsewhere (I can compare with Germany and the U.S.). Most Swedes are either not practicing religion or are atheists.
imartin2k 9y ago
And in the latest press freedom index ranking, 8 out of 10 countries are in Europe. The U.S. is #43. https://rsf.org/en/ranking https://rsf.org/en/ranking
- cgag 9y ago
  meanwhile in finland: http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/three_finns_party_politicians_in_court_over_online_hate_speech/9388039 http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/three_finns_party_politici...