Yes: those indices are bullshit, and don’t measure what they purport to. I expect they’re faithfully reporting the results of whatever metric they constructed without falsifying any data, but that metric is entirely disconnected from what the median American would consider “freedom of speech.”
What you’re doing is essentially pointing at a map like this, and taking it seriously.
That’s a good map; it changed my mind on how seriously to take these sorts of rankings. Do you know the original source? On reverse image search I just found a bunch of reddit posts with hosted copies of the image.
Yes: those indices are bullshit, and don’t measure what they purport to. I expect they’re faithfully reporting the results of whatever metric they constructed without falsifying any data, but that metric is entirely disconnected from what the median American would consider “freedom of speech.”
What you’re doing is essentially pointing at a map like this, and taking it seriously.
That’s a good map; it changed my mind on how seriously to take these sorts of rankings. Do you know the original source? On reverse image search I just found a bunch of reddit posts with hosted copies of the image.
No, sorry. I think it’s a now-deleted tumblr post, but I first saw it it on one of those reddit posts.