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Re:A court ruling in Austria could censor the internet world... by bitwize on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:53AM (#25093019)
> America is the world’s oldest extant democracy.

That would be San Marino.

The U.S. Constitution is the oldest constitution still in force. But we're still pretty young as democracies go. Hell, we haven't even been around as long as one of the first libertarian states, the Icelandic Commonwealth, was.

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Re:A court ruling in Austria could censor the internet world... by pjc50 on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:15PM (#25094772)
San Marino has only been a democracy since, what, after the Italian revolution? It is a uniquely old microstate, though.

(Another line of counter-argument is that the US wasn't a democracy until the civil rights act...)

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