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Re:5G: The outsourced elephant in the room by quelsolaar on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:55PM (#26845679)
According to Reporters without borders, Sweden ranks 4th in the world, in press freedom. I think that would qualify as "fairly free".

https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table

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Re:5G: The outsourced elephant in the room by 1cvmask on Saturday April 17, 2021 @09:09PM (#26848908)
Always be wary of such (and for that matter any) rankings and take them with a massive amount of salt. These NGOs are often fronts for agendas.

https://rsf.org/en/our-supporters

They have the CIA vehicle for regime change as one of their sponsors, the amusingly named National Endowment for Democracy that specializes in overthrowing non-white democracies and regime change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democra...

https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/trojan-horse-th...

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Re:5G: The outsourced elephant in the room by freeflight on Saturday April 17, 2021 @09:24PM (#26848982)
> National Endowment for Democracy that specializes in overthrowing non-white democracies and regime change.

They also don't mind white regime change, NED, along with NATO, the US DoS, and a couple of other rather relevant names, where openly sponsoring [0] "Yat's our man" [1], who ended up becoming PM of Ukraine after Euromaidan escalated into a full blown coup.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200328203654/https://openukrai...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

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