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Because the US has very unfree speech, despite what someone wrote on a piece of paper in 17-whatever year. In general, the US ranks pretty low on most freedom
by immibis 1y ago
Because the US has very unfree speech, despite what someone wrote on a piece of paper in 17-whatever year.
In general, the US ranks pretty low on most freedom metrics, except for the freedom to kill with a gun. In general, the more your country has to tell you you're free, the less free you actually are.
Many other countries explicitly do not have free speech in their constitution, but something more narrow, like freedom of opinion. In those countries, what rights the constitution says you get, and what rights you actually get, tend to be more closely in alignment.
- trollbridge 1y agoCould you elaborate how the U.S. doesn’t have free speech?
- noworriesnate 1y agoIt’s illegal to call for boycotting Israel in many US states [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws
- aydyn 1y agoWhich countries in your opinion does have free speech?
- aydyn 1y agoCrickets
- ranger_danger 1y ago>There has been debate over whether the laws violate the right to free speech and organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) have challenged many of them in court cases.
- FilosofumRex 1y agoFreedom of noise might be more descriptive than freedom of speech, in so far as the Western democracies are concerned. In the US unlimited money has unlimited political power, so free speech, is irrelevant to power distribution, although it might have some academic or personal value for some.
- amy214 1y agoIn the USA, speech is free, but you are not free of consequences for said speech
- immibis 1y agoWhich is the same thing as speech not being free.
- ranger_danger 1y agohttps://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-freedom-of-speech https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries... US ranks 78 of 80 on the Free Speech Index here, not sure what your metrics are that make it supposedly "very unfree". Perhaps you'd like to share with the class?