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I was just trying to make the point, restrictions of the press are usually in response to reporting on the crackdown of protesters as was even stated in the article itself. For this I am losing a karma point every 15 minutes

I only commented on the ranking methodology. As for politics. We have 120 different countries on here with differing experiences; I'm not touching that issue on this thread

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I think that if you had phrased your comment as something like "Shouldn't we try to avoid ranking systems that penalize countries that happen to be having a lot of political protests in a given year?" It wasn't at all obvious to me that the point of your comment was the ranking methodology, as opposed to trying to blame the protesters for the decrease in ranking or just trolling.

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