Australia - "There is no express protection for freedom of speech found in the federal constitution. Indeed, there is no Bill of Rights."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/04/i-was-teaching-a-class-on-freedom-of-speech-when-ben-roberts-smiths-defamation-verdict-was-handed-down
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I observe without additional comment that my two most-downvoted recent comments on Hacker News are first, a suggestion that a commenters complaint about Tik-Tok showing him underage girls is related to a common desire to idealize youth but avoid illegal or troublesome activity, and second, a statement that kindness never goes out of style.

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