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Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr... by kbart on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:20AM (#13460698)
USA is only 41th in the rankings of press freedom[0]. That's worse than some African countries.

0. https://rsf.org/en/ranking#

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Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr... by throwaway122916 on Monday January 23, 2017 @04:58AM (#13461072)
I don't disagree with US not having freedom, but I don't think the nordic countries should be up there either.

For example, you can't publish news in Sweden/Finland/Germany that can be interpreted as anti-feminist or has an anti-refugees sentiment.

This soft pressure is hard to quantify because as a journalist you would lose your job and be accused of various things if you attempted to publish something like that.

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Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr... by kbart on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:51AM (#13461277)
Where did you get such information? I don't know about anti-feministm, but I've seen plenty of anti-refugees articles both in Swedish and German. Moreover, Pegida (openly anti-refugees and anti-islamisation) is an officially registered association in Germany.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegida

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Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr... by throwaway122916 on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:45AM (#13462937)
Didn't know this. Thanks.
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Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr... by otheotheothe on Monday January 23, 2017 @06:27AM (#13461415)
Sorry thats pure non sense, you can publish whatever you want in germany (and i guess the other countries too...) as long as it isn´t hatespeech etc.

There are books for sale like the ones from Thilo: Sarrazin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thilo_Sarrazin

Which are full of anti immigration speech and whatever...

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Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr... by bluGill on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:53AM (#13462997)
What is hatespeach? That in itself chills a lot of possible stories. Anything anti-feminist, is hate speech - it might or not be true.
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Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr... by throwaway122916 on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:43AM (#13462923)
Interesting. Thanks. Wasn't aware
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Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr... by beerbajay on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:57PM (#13478356)
> that can be interpreted as anti-feminist or has an anti-refugees sentiment

This is a lie.

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Re:I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Pr... by herbst on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:20AM (#13471989)
Curious. Where did you even get that from?
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