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Countries that permit the broadest uncensored access to online pornography tend to be liberal democracies with strong free‑speech protections such as the United States, Canada, and many Western and No...
Official reporting compiled by major news outlets and watchdogs indicates that arrests in the UK linked to online communications — including social media posts and private messages — are measured in t...
International observation of Venezuelan elections since 2018 has been highly contested: some external delegations reported in 2018, while multiple international monitors and democratic institutions la...
Multiple indices measure “worst” human‑rights records for different purposes; for worker rights the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) lists Bangladesh, Belarus, Ecuador, Egypt, Eswatini, ...
The best available reporting indicates roughly 12,000 arrests in the UK in 2023 for communications offences that include social media posts, a figure widely cited by The Times and synthesised in Freed...
Across the documents provided, ; the existing reports document widespread arrests and harassment tied to online expression but stop short of a country-by-country ranking or a definitive “highest” figu...
The clearest, sourced claim for social media–related arrests per day comes from UK reporting: The Times’ freedom-of-information finding—cited in Freedom House’s country report—says police were making ...
The United States ranks in the upper-middle tier on broad, multi-dimensional freedom measures but performs unevenly across different indices: it is tied 17th on the Human Freedom Index (out of ~165 ju...
The United States is formally a constitutional republic with regular competitive elections, but experts and institutions increasingly classify its democratic quality as weakened or “flawed,” and some ...
Freedom House’s 2025 "Freedom in the World" reporting shows the United States is no longer among the very top-scoring democracies; Visual Capitalist summarizes that “53 countries are considered more f...
Canada ranks highly on many global measures — for example it tied for #1 in the Country RepTrak/“Most Loved Country” sentiment survey and sits near the top of reputation and freedom rankings — yet it ...
Available reporting shows a stark divergence between arrests for online communications and the number that progress to formal charges and convictions: a Times/FOI‑based figure of over 12,000 arrests i...
Japan’s obscenity law is concentrated in Article 175 of the Penal Code, which criminalizes the distribution, sale or public display of “obscene” writings, pictures or objects with penalties of up to t...
The raw figures reported for the United Kingdom—about 12,000 arrests in 2023 under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988—are striking, and t...
Qatar presents a mixed human-rights record: the government stresses institutional commitments, international engagement, and domestic reforms such as a national human-rights plan and a statutory minim...
The claim that roughly 12,500 people were arrested in the UK for social‑media posts is grounded in Freedom of Information data reported by The Times and summarized by watchdogs: The Times’ FOI returne...
A series of high-profile UK prosecutions in 2024–25 led to convictions for online hate speech and offensive communications, producing outcomes from fines to multi‑month prison terms; notable examples ...
The United States ranks highly on many international freedom and human-rights indices compared with most of the world, but several leading monitors — including Freedom House, V‑Dem/Our World in Data, ...
Cuban institutions and many analysts are described in the provided reporting as a one‑party system that restricts political pluralism and civil liberties; BBC and Amnesty say Cuba is a one‑party state...
In 2023 UK police recorded roughly 12,000 arrests for online communications offences under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 (about 12,1...