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> then in a lot of developing countries like SE Asia

Also South America, and even the Caribbean islands



The thing that always gets me is the freedom of speech issue. I know I'd be jailed in countries like the UK pretty quickly.

I don't know how I'd fair in SE Asia, South Africa, or South America, but my hunch is that it wouldn't be great unless they had similar free speech absolutism.


Is it important to you that your speech is tied to your physical identity?

Now that most communication takes place online, it seems the obvious solution is to say anything controversial via pseudonyms. As long as you don't get careless about protecting your true identity, that seems like something you can do just about anywhere.




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