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    1. Poor New Zealand. Not exactly missing, this time, but crushed under the weight of a gigantic table.

    2. I don’t get this map. The UK is not even in the same ballpark as some of these other nations in ‚Less restricted‘, it’s very much still open with speech

    3. Bullshit map.

      There are people who have been fined and even imprisoned under the EU for speech. As a Swede, let me tell you that Sweden is absolutely not on the same level as the US is. No country that I know of is.

      Regarding freedom of speech, there’s the US and then there’s everyone else.

    4. The UK has the most arrests over social media posts out of anywhere no? Should probably be in a worse tier.

    5. Uk being yellow…that’s truly a bad signal. I wonder what the soldiers would have thought about this development before they were sent off to new coasts to die for a free Europe….

    6. tea_would_be_lovely on

      what is the source of this data? apologies if i’ve missed something, but there seems to be no source?

    7. you cant say anything against i s r a e l in europe, they will lock you up..

    8. Obviously controversy here.

      This is not a case of people using colours as per their politics. This is generated by a human rights group using a subset of 25 elements of the v-dem dataset. It is based on metrics and they appear to have been using the same ones for years, and at a glance the choices are reasonable.

      I don’t presently have access to v-dem, but while there’s always challenge and debate around any effort to metric political culture and systems it’s not hyper partisan per se. It’s simply the subset here is about how people feel and are able to express themselves; it’s not really impacted by the government lying. A lot of the data will also be a few months out of date.

      Also don’t get fixated on colours too much. The UK is one point below green and two points below the Dutch, it’s really within the margin of error in terms of reporting like this where your relying on coded data. I would criticise Article 19s colour mapping (gradients would be better, especially when you want people to understand there are big error bars not clear categories!) and their documentation is pretty bad (their methodology page is 2 years out of date).

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