Would it be worth it to live in the yellow/red for digital freedom? (2024)

Chile and Greenland are the only viable red countries. Mongolia and most of eastern Europe aside from Russia and Ukraine are viable yellows with Poland perhaps being the best option, and Finland is the only acceptable green.

That depends, can you openly criticize the government in said country without being punished for it?

I'm in Thailand and it doesn't feel third world tbh

With very few exceptions, the yellow/red are all far more oppressive than the green counties when it comes to "digital freedom."

Even some to green countries are literal dogsh*t, like Spain, Greece or Turkey
>for digital freedom?
It's not worth it. Unless you do so for money, you should stay on your home c**t.

US, Canada and France are not a first world country for at least 2 decades now.
And Ukraine is 3rd world country now because of the war.
UAE is definitely 1st world country.
This map needs update.

How much money can you make online? You will need to bribe the local police and mayor/chief/warlord. You will also need to pay for a lot of public goods so that local people don't resent having a rich 1st worlder live among them. Don't show off your wealth beyond that though, or you'll attract thieves.
Another consideration is broadband coverage. If your main concern is digital freedom you need the physical infrastructure to exercise that freedom. Realistically that means you need to be in one of the larger cities, which in turn exposes you to a lot more crime. If you don't mind living secluded behind locked gates and electric fences you might be fine.

wtf does "digital freedom" mean to you, who are you? and only you can know if it'd be "worth it"
anyways
>can you
Yes. Many DNM and pirate lords have alternative residency and citizenship-by-investment passports in case everything is fricked and they need to quickly get smuggled to a place without extradition or cooperation, or they just want to be closer to their coloc racks. Surely you are also familiar with the globetrotting and very specific abodes of Snowden/whistleblowers and people like the Scihub lady.

You can paint Australia in yellow

i lived in the yellow part and the green part. i liked the yellow a lot more

You are an utter moron. Authoritarian government -which most yellow/red countries are- are censoring their Internet Access way harder than the green ones. Not for the same reason, though.
.t A yuro living in Africa.

southern italy was practically 3rd world when I lived there in 08
Gangs run everything, there was no sanitation, the tap water was not potable and there were frequent warnings to not even shower with the water because there were too many carcinogens
frick the army for making me live there as a child

Why is Chinese Taiwan third world?

I genuinely believe that if every red and yellow country disappeared overnight my life would not be affected in the slightest, but if every green country disappeared the red and yellow ones would collapse in a week max (except the baltics)

That map is so outdated, it feels like something from 1980 before soviet union collapsed

The map is outdated and isn't relevant.
Like Spain sure, is first world by Cold War political standards, but has more digital freedom than some of the yellow European countries.

>Would it be worth it to live in the yellow/red for digital freedom?
Unlikely unless you are a hard core off-grid self sufficient individual. Most of the red will be cut off from global trade soon and yellow may follow depending on US/China relations. Most of those places won't have stable internet for long and would be at the whim of US/Starlink when they lose local/long-haul land based connections.

First and second world weren't "tier 1 and tier 2." The term "third world" was a reference to the idea that there was the free world, there was the communist world, and then there's everyone else just trying to get by without starving to death. Calling Russia and China 2nd world countries is very insulting to them.

The whole map should be red.

>Chile
>Uruguay
>Third world
Keep thinking that, keeps the subhuman rejects from the "first world" out.

as a citizen of red I would like to tell you that there's no freedom.
might go try yellow some time in the future

Second worlder here. Define your vision of digital freedom. Might be that you wont like how we do things here.

Here in Peru the government is too busy tearing itself apart and stealing from it's people to ever worry about what you are doing on your computer. Hell, even if they did care about that, they're too tech illiterate to do anything about it. I don't know why I even bother with schizo measures like using OpenBSD on a troonybooted Thinkpad. For all I know, you could use internet explorer to download illegal material on an unencrypted windows machine and you'll be fine for the rest of your life, unless they catch you for something else (like those pedophiles who are caught for being predators and then the police discovers they had TBs of e-girl pics on their PCs).