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Rapid decline? Relative to whom? Virtually all other countries have far less respect for free speech.
by blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
Rapid decline? Relative to whom? Virtually all other countries have far less respect for free speech.
- threeseed 2y agoRelative to itself. And there is far more to civic freedom than freedom of speech.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoNothing has changed about civic freedoms in the US with the new administration. If you read the article, their reasons are a bunch of things that have NOTHING to do with civic freedoms. It cites reducing the size of the federal workforce for example. This is just a political activist group that is falsely pitched as some kind of civic freedoms watchlist. On the other hand the EU has serious issues with civic freedoms - censorship, suppression of political parties, cancelling elections with results they don’t like, and more. But I’m sure this group doesn’t mind those actual civic freedom issues.
- text0404 2y agoMass government purges - including unlawfully firing people who oversee the legality of government actions - is an indicator of deteriorating civic freedoms as institutions meant for oversight and public services are dismantled.
- marcusverus 2y agoJournalism is the art of massaging a press release (from a politically motivated organization that nobody has ever heard of and which doesn't actually do anything) into a statement of fact. The average person (who has a seventh-grade reading level, mind you) has absolutely no defense against this sort of low-effort appeal to "authority". TL;DR: It's nonsense. They're manufacturing dissent.
- Xelynega 2y ago> Virtually all other countries have far less respect for free speech. Citation needed?(and maybe a refresher on Chomsky's propaganda model)