While I appreciate your desire to conduct a discussion I would like to know why you ignored my other examples.
Fair. I didn't address those because I thought it was obvious that the US is losing in pretty much every case.
Ah, Freedom House, the same place that lists countries like Germany and France as having higher freedom ratings than the US despite both countries having laws criminalizing Holocaust denial and/or Nazi imagery.
Yeah, i get this one. As much as i don't like Nazi shit and hate speech that gets flung everywhere, this is still infringing on free speech rights. We have the right to say what we want to say, and believe what we want to believe.
I read about a student getting arrested though, after writing an op-ed in march. This student was arrested for supporting Hamas (Hamas
is a terrorist organization and weakens Gaza imo). Turns out, her article doesn't mention Hamas, only talking about her universities response to the Israel-Palestine clusterfuck. This person was held in detention to be removed from the country, and her visa was cancelled. She was later released by the order of a federal judge, so clearly DHS didn't have the proof required to make a case (all they cited was the op-ed).
This person was talking about her university, not supporting any terrorism, nor hate speech, or anything else. To be clear, I don't know that there are many examples of this in US history, hell this might be the first.
You're right that we don't have laws against hate speech, and that's a win. Germany has them, and so do a couple other countries. But even though we don't have these laws, this person was still arrested for the act of voicing her opinion. Germany has laws and arrests people for breaking them. Laws can be changed by their legislature, so they are affected by the voice of the people (to an extent). We don't have these laws, and we still arrest people, and I'm not sure who I'd talk to about that. Germany won this one.
They even rank the UK higher than the US. The UK of course having virtually zero firearms rights ( along with a number of other supposedly "free" countries ) , is losing more free speech rights every day
I think this is true, esp. the gun part. If anyone disagrees about the free speech though, I'd be happy to be proven wrong. However, they're not alone. See above.
{The UK is} where the prohibition of double jeopardy has been abrogated.
Partially abrogated. I looked it up, and this law has been used less than a dozen times since it passed 20 years ago. In one case, the guy confessed to murdering a woman after the trial while in prison for another crime. In another case, two men accused of rape and murder of another man were acquitted for lack of evidence. DNA tech used later conclusively linked them and they got the sentence they rightfully deserved. It's used when the new evidence proves culpability, and it's not used lightly. You aren't getting called back to court for your TV license or anything.
Japan is given a rating of 96 despite still maintaining the death penalty.
Yeah, I don't like the death penalty either, but we have the death penalty too. Feds have the death penalty for terrorism, high crimes, etc. States have it, I'm pretty sure I read about a goddamn firing squad execution that happened a couple years back.
Australia is rated at 95 despite labeling toys as firearms
Hilariously, yeah gel firing toys are registered as firearms in some places in australia. They also have different laws around toys that look like actual guns (basically replicas of these guns from what i can see). I don't get the gel firing bit, thats stupid af to me so ill concede that. The toys that look like guns though, I DO get that. It's designed to make it inconvenient to get them, and I get the spirit behind the law. They don't want kids walking around with things that look like guns. I think you'll understand that thats a stupid situation to put a kid in.
{And Australia is} banning small-breasted women from appearing in pornography because they think they might somehow encourage pedophilia.
This one is easy:
https://www.newsweek.com/pornography-ban-us-bill-2071409
For those that say this is pending, and not actual law yet: You are correct. This bill probably won't pass. But i think there are tons of red states now that have "age verification laws" to safeguard access around porn. You gotta upload your id to the website, and then the government knows what a naughty naughty boy you are, if they don't already.
Of course, websites aren't gonna do this, so they block access in a lot of those states. In other words? Porn is now banned in those states. You don't have to ban it if you can make it so inconvenient to access that people aren't gonna try.
Maybe porn is offensive to some people, and maybe they want it taken down. But remember that your opinions can be considered offensive by some people too.
www.justice.gov
