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      The country I live in is pretty free, the government still threatened to prosecute people for supporting Russia on social media. And don’t even mention speech persecution in the UK.

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        The UK doesn’t have a constitution and never had, they are ruled by a monarchy so what they do have only exists because the monarchy allows it to.

        A lot of European countries have constitutions.

        Does your country have free speech protections in its constitution?

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      Sorry, it wasn’t meant to be a blanket statement of all countries but “other countries” as in there are countries that you can’t talk shit about your government and it is much more than the 3 you mentioned.

      It can also be much more subtle than it is in say North Korea. Russia seems to have a lot of people falling out of building windows when they oppose the government. Jails house political opponents, journalists, whistle lowers, and the like.

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        • mogul@lemmy.world
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          A good portion of Europe have constitutions in place. The EU itself has a constitution. I’d also like to add that “freedom” means something different to different people so it’s tough to say someplace is free.

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          I have and it was easy and where I live we don’t have a stop and frisk law.

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          It’s an annoying process, but it’s not that bad. There are areas in this country where it is, or worse, but it’s also nearly a continent and some change worth of people and places, so it’s hard to generalize. Police are also a locally controlled thing in the US, so it diverges more then say the post office.