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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)
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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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Counter-argument: protection against hate speech (or worse still, mass shootings) is freedom in itself (Just illustrating a cultural difference, not trying to argue)
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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"
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