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>Why so? Because there is no better political system—the constitution, separation of powers, civil society and citizens—than the United States today that can pr
by pkinsky 13y ago
>Why so? Because there is no better political system—the constitution, separation of powers, civil society and citizens—than the United States today that can protect liberty and free speech.
We may pass the low bar set by China and Russia, but each of these claims needs a citation.
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- sp332 13y agoDefinitely! I agree with the headline, but it's because of the track record of the specific agencies in the US that currently "control the internet", not because I think US agencies in general are superior.
- rayiner 13y agoWhich country large enough to do the job does a better job than the United States? Leave aside China and Russia. How about the U.K., which put the whole country under video surveillance years ago? How about France, which is currently waging a war on head scarves? Read this and tell me which country does a better job protecting speech than the U.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech.
- Spearchucker 13y agoHow about all of them?
- gibwell 13y agoAre you joking?
- jeremysmyth 13y agoAll != each
- healsjnr1 13y agoThis is such an enormous call to make. America may have a good system for protecting free speech, however in terms of many other points their political system is so broken as to be almost unusable. Did everyone just forget that a relatively small special interest just shut down the country for 16 days? does no one else see the ridiculousness of a system where elections take 2+ years and cost billions of dollars meaning there is no effective way to dissolve and re-elect government even when this kind of thing occurs? Yes, they have a constitution that enshrines freedom of speech. So what, it means nothing when the rest of the governance is archaic and inept.