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From where I live (not in the US) the US doesn't look particularly good as far as civil liberties go. Not that my country (Australia) is great either. We're jus
by zik 8y ago
From where I live (not in the US) the US doesn't look particularly good as far as civil liberties go. Not that my country (Australia) is great either. We're just messed up in different ways.
- jordanthoms 8y agoAt least they don't have an official censorship regime like we have in Australia and NZ. We're still banning books here... primitive.
- Joakal 8y agoThought you were referring to Australia's Internet censorship regime. They even (briefly) censored a Queensland dentist's website.
- nyolfen 8y agowe have extremely robust free speech rights, which in particular i'm very proud of
- int_19h 8y agoNone of the countries look particularly good, because we're on a backwards trend globally. But US still looks better than pretty much everybody else.
- int_19h 8y agoPeople who disagree with this should bear in mind the context from the parent comment - we're talking about civil rights specifically, not whether one country is better than another in general. I don't think there's much room for debate on whether US has the most expansive freedom of speech protections, for example. Many people would argue that it doesn't do a good job of balancing those rights with other matters of importance, but that is a different conversation.
- lenkite 8y agoI don't understand why you are being down-voted. All over the world, governments are indeed slowly becoming nanny states for the 'good of the people'. In India, for example, they just blocked all pornographic sites. Stuff like this doesn't make world news. The US is better by a far margin that most nations since your rights are explicitly stated in your constitution.
- ralusek 8y agoWhich civil liberties do you think that you have in Australia, which has serious issues with censorship and speech laws, which we do not have in the US?