alt Hacker NewsLike the Tor Project, Signal, Tails, Qubes, Wireguard, etc. The US government is not a monolith. Funded by the FBI as a Honeypot phone company is quite different to funded by the Open Technology Fund. I don't see a problem with the Freedom House, they seem critical of the US's problems and are documenting authoritarianism.
On the other hand, I looked at some of their rankings of specific countries and I noticed they put the UK as higher than USA for freedom on the net and in general. That ranking seems odd to me.
> On the other hand, I looked at some of their rankings of specific countries and I noticed they put the UK as higher than USA for freedom on the net and in general. That ranking seems odd to me.
This is either judgement so poor that it completely disqualifies them as judges of how free the world is; or Freedom House institutionally likes British online content restrictions and wants to enact similar ones in the US, which also completely disqualifies them as judges of how free the world is.