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|colspan=10|His Grand Duke's government supports a free traditional and online press. But it does not allow things that could destabilize the country.
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|colspan=10|The Magocracy has largely left free speech of the individual untouched. Media is far more likely to be subjected to censorship or fines.
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Revision as of 18:31, 21 October 2023

Country Guarantee of Free Speech? Censorship? Online Speech Criticism of Government Defamation Hate Speech Incitement to Violence Obscenity Sedition Blasphemy
 Lurynia Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal
The Magocracy has largely left free speech of the individual untouched. Media is far more likely to be subjected to censorship or fines.
 Magia Regnum Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Illegal Legal Legal Nothing against the Ōrumaiti
The Kotoba rarely limits speech outside of incitment to violence or direct violations against the Ōrumaiti or her will directly.
 Japuile Legal Legal Legal Legal Illegal Illegal Illegal Legal Illegal Illegal
His Grand Duke's government supports a free traditional and online press. But it does not allow things that could destabilize the country.
Cancelled De Facto Legal Controlled Illegal Illegal Controlled Legal Legal Legal Legal
The Magocracy has largely left free speech of the individual untouched. Media is far more likely to be subjected to censorship or fines.
 Crown Royal Goverment Legal Regulated Legal Regulated Regulated Regulated Regulated Regulated Regulated Regulated
The Crown Royal has all free speech. But there is no guarantee in freedom after speech.

Any content related to the person that was removed from the internet is cleaned up by the Winter Palace's Cybersecurity branch or the Crown Royal Ministry of Information, or the Crown Armed Forces Cybersecurity Division

 Ekena Legal Illegal Legal Legal Partial Illegal Illegal Partial Illegal Legal
 Choslow Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Illegal Legal Illegal Legal
The government will allow you to say what you want to say, the consequences of those words are dependent on what was said.
Legal Legal Legal Legal Illegal Illegal Illegal Legal Illegal Ambiguous
 Ostrov Yes No No internet connection Legal Illegal Not prohibited Illegal Legal Illegal Not prohibited
The Ostrovian police force does not proactively prevent the publication of illegal speech, but will prosecute those who are likely to encourage imminent harm to Ostrov and its people.
 Ambriya Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Illegal Illegal Legal Illegal Legal
Hate speech, incitment to violence, sedition or seperatism is criminalised and frowned upon in Ambriya and is punishable with prison time. Press is also subject to these laws.
 Nova Solarius Legal Illegal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal
 Kaidokoku Legal Illegal Defacto Legal Harmless Illegal Illegal Legal Legal Unregulated
Defamation made with false information and found to have caused genuine harm to the victim will result in a public retraction of said statements, no material compensations.
 Kerussiria Legal Illegal Legal Legal Partial Legal Illegal Legal Legal Legal
Defamantory statements that cause harm yet lack meritable proof or truths will result in fines and retraction of the statement.
 Dairana Legal Illegal Legal Legal Depends On Severity Illegal Illegal Partial Illegal Illegal
The Goverment mainly tackles on speech that can potentially harm others or harm mental health.
 Yulsan Legal Illegal Legal Legal Partial Partial Illegal Legal Legal Legal
 Indefinite Color Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal Legal
Indefinite Color does not regulate. It likes variety and drama.

 Ardenarai

Illegal Illegal Illegal Illegal Depends on who you offend Depends on who are the victims Encouraged Illegal Illegal Illegal
Ardenarai is discriminatory and actively purges anything it dislikes. The higher one goes up in the social hierarchy, the more leeway one could find in saying what he or she may want. Most offences are given corporal punishment, and it isn't uncommon to hear someone being sentenced to death occasionally because he or she may had offended the wrong person.
 Polslava Legal Illegal Legal Legal Partial Illegal Illegal Partial Illegal Legal
 Metamora De Facto Legal Legal In peacetime only Illegal Partial[1] Illegal Encouraged Illegal Encouraged
While seemingly restrictive, the powers of censorship are rarely used and often are regarded with disdain. There is no permanent committee established to coordinate censorship efforts, so any censorship usually has to be directly forced through the legislature. This results in a sort of pseudo-free speech system, where one's freedom of speech is threatened mostly by outside forces. However, individual enforcement officers have the power to take care of any cases that fall under sedition or movements to violence.
  1. In accordance with Metamoran discrimination laws, hate speech is permitted to two groups only: The religious and those convicted of crimes heavier in weight than a fine. Inversely, hate speech towards atheism is usually punished much more harshly than other types.