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Re:Pardon Snowden by wehadfun on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @01:33PM (#12499321)
You can't even chew gum in Singapore. Australia probably is free if you are not an Aboriginal. Hong Kong Free as long as China doesn't want you. This list is crazy. The free countries are probably all third world but then people are free to literally eat you without punishment.
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Re:Pardon Snowden by driverdan on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @02:21PM (#12499814)
It's the economic freedom index, not personal liberties index.
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Re:Pardon Snowden by Broken_Hippo on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @05:34PM (#12501384)
It is an economic freedom index from a conservative American organization's point of view, actually. Part of the metric is government spending: Another portion rates laws about firing folks, minimum wages, and other such things.
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