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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...
The certified national popular vote in the gave more votes than , with multiple reputable trackers reporting Trump roughly between 76.9 million and 77.3 million votes and Harris between about 74.4 mil...
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, ...
is experiencing a serious and rapid deterioration in democratic norms that many experts say has moved the country closer to hybrid or illiberal status, but scholars disagree sharply on whether a “poin...
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...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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...
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...
The 2024 popular vote was won by Republican nominee Donald Trump, not Joe Biden; Trump received roughly 77.27 million votes to Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’s roughly 74.98 million, a margin of abo...
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...
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 ...
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...