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> Distribution of porn is illegal there and they do their best to block it from outside.

Good. Why should any country be a conduit for porn? Most sane countries frown upon and limit things like porn, gambling, drugs, etc. Like we used to until fairly recently.

> They are pretty big on cyber defamation and will go after people who make fun of government officials[0]

It's like that in most countries. Other countries can have their own values. Nothing wrong with it.

> They have a comparatively low internet freedom score because they do things like fine middle schoolers for having anti-government websites and the president pursues legal action against YouTubers[1].

Freedomhouse is apparently a state propaganda outfit.

'Most of the organization's funding comes from the U.S. State Department[4] and other government grants.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House

You are linking to a propaganda site created solely to push a political agenda. Germany has an amazing 'freedom' scores but you could go to jail in germany for espousing certain beliefs about certain events in ww2.

That south korea scores low in the freedomhouse index is a good thing. Though it is surprising given that south korea is a militarily occupied vassal of the US.

> It's pretty interesting when coming from the west where all the problems are often spoken about in the open.

Are they really? You are conflating 'the west' with the US. Most of 'the west' is not like america. In most of the west, you can go to jail or be punished for speech. Most of the west doesn't have free speech that we do in america.

What's with the neverending 'coming from the west' from foreigners here? So many foreigners here pretend to be americans here? Why?

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> In most of the west, you can go to jail or be punished for speech. Most of the west doesn't have free speech that we do in america.

I'm going to assume you don't travel much cause on our side of the pound we can very much speak out loud of many things the US can't.

In fact, we don't have the absurd taboos that force the US to use alternative words. We can:

- Report "He disrespected his colleague, calling him a niger". No need to hide that behind "the n-word".

- We can call pedophilia what it is and debate about how to punish it, instead of using acronyms like CSAM for fear of being labeled in a certain way.

- We can show tits or talk about vagina and not get "porn" tagged all over.

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> I'm going to assume you don't travel much cause on our side of the pound we can very much speak out loud of many things the US can't.

Pound? What country are you from? Why are people so sneaky? Hiding behind 'the west'.

> In fact, we don't have the absurd taboos that force the US to use alternative words.

What? None of what you wrote applies to the US and none of it has anything to do with free speech. It applies to woke social media. What does 'porn tag' have to do with free speech? Besides, my point was being jailed or punished by the government.

> We can:

Question the holocaust without going to jail?