I remember visiting India as a kid with my family, and one of my cousins telling me about an America TV series that was banned. I didn't think much of it at the time, but as I've grown older, I've really come to appreciate the freedom of speech we have in America. I just wrote a post about it:
India is literally the largest democratic country by population in the world. Despite its issues, it has a functioning democracy, yet its freedom of speech is limited.
I've lived in a few different countries, and one thing that still amazes me is that America still has some of the strongest court prescient when it comes to speech laws. We have restrictions of course, like all countries do, but I've never seen the US ranked high on the free speech indexes I've seen. My own research leads me to believe the US and Japan stand out as the two nations with some of the strongest free speech laws (although Japan's have some challenging issues with copyright and fair use).
https://battlepenguin.com/politics/why-i-no-longer-hate-amer...
India is literally the largest democratic country by population in the world. Despite its issues, it has a functioning democracy, yet its freedom of speech is limited.
I've lived in a few different countries, and one thing that still amazes me is that America still has some of the strongest court prescient when it comes to speech laws. We have restrictions of course, like all countries do, but I've never seen the US ranked high on the free speech indexes I've seen. My own research leads me to believe the US and Japan stand out as the two nations with some of the strongest free speech laws (although Japan's have some challenging issues with copyright and fair use).