There is a claim that the US and the UK have enacted much stricter national security laws, such that the proposed law in Hong Kong is nearly a strict subset of those in the US and UK. Can anyone confirm or refute this?
The US and UK do not kidnap and disappear people for selling pro-democracy books, raid critical newspapers, kidnap business leaders critical of government policy nor do they hold self-exiled citizens families hostage.
A lot of times on paper they may look the same, the difference is on how much a law is stretched. What is treason? Do you follow precedence or do you re-interpret as you see fit?
There has been a deterioration of freedom across the globe. In part we owe this to GW Busch and co who prompted different areas of gov to be more aggressive in detecting dissent in order to find extreme dissent, in part we owe this to technology --it's too easy. This has overflowed into other areas such as Covid dissent and sometimes including sociopolitical dissent, etc.
Q: Is it true that there is freedom of speech in the USSR, just like in the USA?
A: Yes. In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Ronald Reagan," and you will not be punished. Equally, you can also stand in Red Square in Moscow and yell, "Down with Ronald Reagan," and
you will not be punished.