The World’s Most & Least Free Countries

[Hamartia Antidote]

So I guess people in China can't readily easily access such things like many American platforms such as X, Youtube and Facebook must be a big negative in the ranking of freedom.

What can one expect ? The image of China in the West is the embodiment of an authoritarian or worse a totalitarian Communist nation while the image of US in the West is the leader of the free world.

hey in case you can't read barcharts or the links in the article the US wasn't even in the top 65...so it obviously has nothing to do with X, Youtube, or Facebook as that certainly isn't seen as a big plus to push us near the top.

The image you should expect of China and the US is the image we got...time to deal with reality instead of crying about conspiracies...you clap when China is on the top of a VisualCapitalist barchart but scream murder when you are low.

 

[ety]

hey in case you can't read barcharts or the links in the article the US wasn't even in the top 65...so it obviously has nothing to do with X, Youtube, or Facebook as that certainly isn't seen as a big plus to push us near the top.

The image you should expect of China and the US is the image we got...time to deal with reality instead of crying about conspiracies...you clap when China is on the top of a VisualCapitalist barchart but scream murder when you are low.

Lol, we already know what the West says about China and US societies from every day narratives in the media. You don't have to be so defensive to cover the bias already existed. I am just stating the facts eventhough US is not at the top. Chinese can't readily access Western platforms specifically American is definitely going to negatively affect the score, one doesn't have to be a genius to figure that out.
This kind ranking also has to do with perceptions rather than just on on hard stats as in some other rankings.

 

[Beijingwalker]

LOL! Your favorite "go to" bar chart site "VisualCapitalist" is now simply Western propaganda because China was not put on the top.

When it comes to true facts and figures, it's worth studying, freedom index? come on, how can abstract ideas varying from culture to culture be universally indexed? who is that dumb even trying to do so.

 

[SABRE]

Where is:
India
Pakistan
Occupied Palestine
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
A very convenient list I would say for western propaganda.

Or Israel, for that matter.

 

[Beijingwalker]

More free

America chose profits over people while China chose people over profits​

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[retaxis]

Democracy is meant to create good governance.

If you can't have good popular governance than democracy is meaningless.

A real democracy also doesn't go to war on the wishes of a small minority of population either.

 

[retaxis]

Epstein class Says no more freedoms or safety!

Usa is actually the global dictator of the Epstein class. There can be no freedom in the world while usa is threatening countries who do not do as told.

Now Americans in america are being banned, attacked, arrested for critiquing israel and Epstein class.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Or Israel, for that matter.

Sort the scores on this page and count the table rows:

Countries and Territories

Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 208 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report. Individual freedoms—ranging from the right to vote to freedom of expression and equality before the law—can be affected by state or...

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It's tied at the #76 slot with a bunch of other countries below the Solomon Islands.

 

[Menthol]

Germany:

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Just one post, it destroys everything.

 

[Menthol]

Narcissism at maximum level.

My freedom is freedom, your freedom is disgusting, there's should be law to regulate it.

That's why you scored low.

 

[MH.Yang]

I explicitly picked something from VisualCapitalist where both the US and China were both ranked nowhere near the top to see if PDF would come out of the woodwork to heavily criticize the barcharts...because they never question the veracity of all the VisualCapitalist barcharts posted in this forum section where China was high.

Even better was that Pakistan was not listed on the chart at all so that wouldn't skew things one way or another.

It seems my experiment worked.

This ranking is meaningless. In the top-ranked European countries, citizens don’t even have the freedom to take to the streets and shout “Free Palestine.” If they do this, they will be arrested by the police.
Freedom in Western countries is not equal; it is rife with falsehoods and hypocrisy.

 

[Solomon2]

hey in case you can't read barcharts or the links in the article the US wasn't even in the top 65...

A lot of the U.S. report boils down to, "Blame Trump" - citing his actions at asserting Constitutional executive authority or how they fear some of his actions may be out of financial self-interest. But I don't see how these things measure of how free a country is. And the criticism of Trump's attempted education reforms strikes me as exactly backwards: by no means does all oppression stem from government, academia can oppress and suppress as well, and that's a trend Trump is trying to reverse, or at least slow.
More to the point was Missouri vs. Murphy - which only merited a sentence - as that had to do with the federal government coercing social media to hew to the government line.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

This ranking is meaningless. In the top-ranked European countries, citizens don’t even have the freedom to take to the streets and shout “Free Palestine.” If they do this, they will be arrested by the police.
Freedom in Western countries is not equal; it is rife with falsehoods and hypocrisy.

Lol! you are projecting what can easily happen in China to a situation is Europe and it is exactly why China is rated so low in the OP.

Let's ask the Chinese AI what the real truth is:

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

A lot of the U.S. report boils down to, "Blame Trump" - citing his actions at asserting Constitutional executive authority or how they fear some of his actions may be out of financial self-interest. But I don't see how these things measure of how free a country is. And the criticism of Trump's attempted education reforms strikes me as exactly backwards: by no means does all oppression stem from government, academia can oppress and suppress as well, and that's a trend Trump is trying to reverse, or at least slow.
More to the point was Missouri vs. Murphy - which only merited a sentence - as that had to do with the federal government coercing social media to hew to the government line.

There is certainly bias. The second Trump wins the election the US with the snap of a finger suddenly goes from "representative democracy" to "authoritarian regime"..then when Biden is elected it goes back to "representative democracy" and then Trump gets re-elected it goes back to "authoritarian regime".

 

[KAL-EL]

I explicitly picked something from VisualCapitalist where both the US and China were both ranked nowhere near the top to see if PDF would come out of the woodwork to heavily criticize the barcharts...because they never question the veracity of all the VisualCapitalist barcharts posted in this forum section where China was high.

Even better was that Pakistan was not listed on the chart at all so that wouldn't skew things one way or another.

It seems my experiment worked.

Almost like clockwork your experiment it seems worked.