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On the human rights front? Compared to most of the rest of the world they are extremely developed. At least free speech is protected which is more than can be
by bennysonething 6y ago
On the human rights front? Compared to most of the rest of the world they are extremely developed. At least free speech is protected which is more than can be said for most common of Europe now.
- ric2b 6y agoCan you share some examples of large infringements on freedom of speech that happened in well developed European countries? Given the examples of police brutality related to protests that I've seen in the US just this year I doubt you'll be able to provide any examples that are more worrying than that.
- selectodude 6y agoThe UK’s insane libel laws are a good example.
- ric2b 6y agoDo you have any specific examples that show how insane they are? Because the US also has libel laws.
- Robin_Message 6y agoSimon Singh was successfully sued by the British Chiropractic association for pointing out they are quacks. (Edit to add: I just checked and he appealed a point of law successfully and then they withdrew — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chiropractic_Association_v_Singh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chiropractic_Associati... — but as I understand it such a case would be laughed out of a US court.) Although I'd agree with the general point that whilst America has good theoretically human rights, the EU is better at actual rights (and in particular, rights against corporations).
- TeaDrunk 6y agoBut overall UK probably still ranks as treating its basic citizens with better decency than the USA due to healthcare access among other things.
- crondung 6y agoeu does not have freedom of speech, the have freedom if acceptable speech as defined by the government. go swear at a cop, claim the holocaust wasn't real, say a religious slur, etc. you'll be arrested. source: i've been to every eu country, and lived in several. your protest examples have nothing to do with free speech.
- Pyramus 6y agoYou will be hard pressed to find an index that aims to measure Human Rights where the US scores better than the main European countries such as Germany, UK, France, Italy, Netherlands etc. Press Freedom Index [1]: Nope Human Rights Scores & Human Rights Violations [2]: Nope and nope [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index [2] https://ourworldindata.org/human-rights https://ourworldindata.org/human-rights