The defamation laws in Japan are pretty strict, and you can be found guilty of defamation even if you say something that's provably true.
I don't think Pippa will get that free speech she wants if she decides to live in Japan.
Honest question, because this has been on my mind for a while: is there actually free speech in America any more?
Americans point to the First Amendment and it's something I always respected the country for, but seeing the shit Josh goes through made me lose that appreciation I previously had for America's "freedom" culture. If ISPs, payment processors, tech companies, even just literally-who randos with a chip on their shoulder can have whatever you want to say silenced anyway, there's basically no point in the First Amendment even being there. You can't even set up a charity now if someone at the bank dislikes you personally; that's not freedom, it feels like the "I may not like what you have to say but I respect your right to say it" mentality has gone away entirely.
Trump's First Lady, Elon Musk, using free speech as a grift on X doesn't paint a promising picture ever. The guy sells X as a free speech site, but if you reply to someone calling them a retarded fag you'll get immediately shadowbanned. You're basically talking to yourself at that point, so it's just an illusion of freedom; you can sit alone in a room and say "I hate Yamanbas" to yourself in China if you wanted to.
I'm obviously not happy about the authoritarian shit Starmer's pushing over here, but it feels like the US is snowballing in the same direction while being too blinded by patriotism to notice.
Don't they want to bring in 15 minute cities over there where you aren't allowed to travel outside your zone unless you get a permit?
It's one of those schemes someone uses to farm funding and/or votes before quietly forgetting about it later on. There's something like it in the news every few years or so, nothing ever happens.