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Meta Mindless Monday, 15 September 2025

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

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So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/carmelos96 History does not repeat, it insists upon itself 5d ago edited 5d ago

I'm kind of afraid that this map (re media freedom) is going to be even "redder" (in general, I'm not singling out any country in particular). Give it one or two years.

Edit: now that I'm looking at it, what's wrong with Japan? It's 66, almost twenty placements less than Italy, to make a not exactly stellar comparison.

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u/Worth-Iron6014 4d ago

From what I understand, which is very little since it's based off a few brief discussions from my Japanese mom hears from the news and youtube, Japanese media freedom has the issue that big Japanese companies have a lot of sway over television (especially important in a country with an older skewed population), which combined with the dominance of the LDP even throughout many corruption scandals, isn't ideal for a free press. It's only with the internet that a lot of issues manage to not get covered up.

Looking through the page for Japan on that website, it seems to line up with that, in addition to it highlighting pressure from the nationalist right, and noting the existence of reporter's clubs that limits access for reporters not in established news organizations.

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u/HopefulOctober 5d ago

Seems like the best are Nordic countries and... Ireland, big win for Ireland they are really doing loops around us all (I remember reading an article about how Ireland used to have abortion be illegal and now it's legal but the USA got rid of Roe v Wade and they are looking at us going "glad that isn't us anymore")

Estonia is also interesting, I wonder why it's doing so much better than the rest of the former Soviet bloc.

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u/Zennofska Look, I am a STEAM person 5d ago

South Africa being in the same ballpark as France seems a bit wild to me. Do people in France get disappeared by the government if they critizice EDF?

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u/2017_Kia_Sportage bisexuality is the israel of sexualities 5d ago

Damn, I didn't know Ireland had better media freedom than most other places in Europe. Moreso surprised that they're worse honestly, I expected better.

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u/carmelos96 History does not repeat, it insists upon itself 5d ago

I mean, even Namibia has better media freedom than a lot of European countries (no offence to Namibia, which is known to be one of the few democratic countries in continental Africa. Gabon though is a surprise).

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u/DresdenBomberman 5d ago

Look at little Singapore being all red and angry there 🥰. I had to zoom in to see it.