Geopolitics

What are some important freedoms that traditional freedom indices (Freedom House, Heritage Economic Freedom, etc) are missing?

(note: I *don't* mean in the "real freedom means high speed trains, being safe and having public healthcare" direction, I mean like actual freedoms, but ones that usual indices neglect)

Real free speech in the sense that there are no illegal opinions.

The US is one of the only countries in the world that meets that bar rn, but countries with whole swathes of illegal opinion (Germany, UK) rank higher on freedom house "civil liberties" than the US

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To me the really under-watched categories of free speech restriction are:

* Defamation law (there's a reason Craig Wright tried to sue me+EF in the UK and not the US)
* Legal precedents/rules by which things you publicly/privately say affect whether or not your *other actions* are treated as legal

what about laws on misinformation? In my opinion they effectively amount to censorship. 

Would be nice if people could decide what information to censor for themselves on social platforms.

Like train a classification algo filtering out certain topics, and users can choose to turn them on/off. (?)

Nah this an orwellian war-is-peace type antonym-euphemism

The proponents of these laws don't frame it as freedom. Instead they say: "safety". Their argument is that people, esp the historically disadvantaged, have a right to "feel safe" in opposition to what the NYT poetically disparaged as "unfettered free speech"

Counter-argument: protection against hate speech (or worse still, mass shootings) is freedom in itself

(Just illustrating a cultural difference, not trying to argue)