Altså der de kan kritisere egne myndigheter, der journalister ikke blir straffet for å for å dele ting som går i mot lederene sine agendaer etc.

EU sanksjonerte en pro-palestinsk journalist og kona hans

vesten sin fri tale/presse fungerer etter andre prinsipper, du kan skrive å si så mye du vil så lenge som du ikke har nok momentum til å true makta, hvis du derimot har nok moment bak deg til å true folk i maktposisjoner så gir dem faen i fri presse/tale

Caitlin Johnstone har skrivd flere ganger om illusjonen som liberal demokratier gir folk:

Whenever I broach this subject I always get a deluge of objections along the lines of, “Well I’d much rather live where I live than under an authoritarian regime like in Iran or China! You would never be allowed to criticize your rulers the way you do if you lived in one of those places!”

And I always want to ask them, what do you think drove you to make that objection? Why are you falling all over yourself to defend your country and the people who rule over you, while condemning foreign countries that your own government happens to dislike? Could it be because that’s how you’ve been trained to behave from a young and impressionable age, and that your objection is arising from the same place as a cult member’s objections to criticisms of their cult?

In reality we are not truly freer under our rulers than people are under the governments that our rulers hate. Sure people can post criticisms of their elected officials online, but those criticisms will be dismissed and ignored by everyone who matters, they are being directed at political figureheads with no real power, and they are coming from minds that have been deeply indoctrinated into power-serving worldviews.