It can hardly be said to benefit 'ordinary people' that anyone can find out a person's home address, birthday, salary, workplace, the size of their home, their

It can hardly be said to benefit 'ordinary people' that anyone can find out a person's home address, birthday, salary, workplace, the size of their home, their family, children, and so on. These databases are generally available not to benefit 'freedom of expression', but so that neighbors can easily spy on each other, or the newspapers can print-on-demand lists of "The richest people in YOUR area!". Whatever else, the truly richest people have fixed the system so that their wealth isn't accessible in an online database. Aside from the fact that Sweden is the most opinion-conformist country I've ever lived in (so that 'freedom of the press' is farcical at the best of times), when it comes to true freedom of speech the police will crush it mercilessly: literally shooting people in the streets, followed by kangaroo courts that rubber-stamp fake police evidence to convict peaceful protesters with draconian sentences.[1] Governments, police and the authorities are all protected by extensive secrecy. It's only the ordinary 'sucker' who has the 'freedom' of exposing all their most private affairs for everyone to pry. [1] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göteborgskravallerna https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göteborgskravallerna (in Swedish) PS: for once the multiple downvotes are themselves an artifact of the discussion- I'm betting from affronted Swedes lol - because being negative about Sweden isn't allowed to be stated. But Swedes are all very proud of freedom of expression