Net freedoms
The government was pressed to ban X over charges that Elon Musk’s AI app Grok is being used to ‘undress’ women and children. Kemi Badenoch said the Tories would copy Australia in banning under-16s from social media. What are the most extreme countries for regulating the internet and social media – using a combined score including political sites, pornography and virtual private networks (VPNs), from the most laissez-faire at 1 to the most restrictive at 12?
Category 1: Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Estonia, Switzerland Category 2: Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, Finland, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Iceland, Moldova, Mongolia, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden Category 11: Iraq, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Turkmenistan Category 12: China, Iran, North Korea
Pothole pariahs
Which are the best, and worst, authorities…