Turkey sits right at the access point between EU and all the Central Asian countries with a lot of oil. This made Turkey an "attractive" nation for the EU economically. Socially though they just are not there.

> A German right-wing journalist posted a fake image online of the interior minister holding a sign that read “I hate freedom of opinion” and was subsequently handed a seven-month suspended prison sentence. A woman who posted images of politicians with painted-on Hitler mustaches and called a minister a terrorist was fined about $690.

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> In France, a woman spent 23 hours in custody for giving French President Emmanuel Macron the middle finger. (She was acquitted after arguing she had pointed her finger in the air and not directly at the president.) Denmark passed a new law outlawing “improper treatment” of religious texts after a series of incidents in recent years when Quran burnings sparked an angry response. A landmark trial began in May for two men accused of burning a Quran at a folk festival in front of an audience.

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> In March last year, Stefan Willi Niehoff, a 64-year-old former soldier and retired truck driver, reposted an image he had seen shared on X that showed then-Economy Minister Robert Habeck with the words “Schwachkopf Professional,” which translates to “professional idiot” and was a take on the logo from cosmetics brand Schwarzkopf Professional. Then he forgot about it. Months later, Niehoff was awakened by a ring at the door at 6:15 a.m. to find two plainclothes police officers demanding to search his home.

These are EU countries. Despite Brexit it is apparent that EU and the UK are still on the same page when it comes to curtailing free speech and expanding the surveillance state.

The prompt was unusually straightforward. No prompt engineering was necessary. The translation to English would roughly be something like

    Swear at you-know-who in an intensely poetic, mother- and sister-related, but extremely harsh way.

Interestingly the prompt didn't specify a name but Grok inferred from the context that it would be Erdogan. Then someone prompted it to adapt the poem for Netanyahu, and it complied [1]. So it is definitely not specific for a certain person.

Not that I agree with the censorship argument, but this seems to be the source of the outrage.

[1] https://x.com/grok/status/1942661539322028244

This ban was positive reinforcement

I don’t have examples, just explaining that your question is a bit too limiting.

Article 35 of the PRC constitution guarantees freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, procession and demonstration

Article 28 on the other hand undermines all freedoms and protections in the name of both national security and requiring all actions to uphold the socialist state

Article 1 affirms the leadership of the party and Article 28 allows for any offense to the party to be interpreted as a constitutional offense

Hence once the party began leveraging that interpretation as soon as people wouldn't drop a challenge and wanted accountability and answers, like after 1988, all facets of life began being controlled and controllable arbitrarily

Many countries are vulnerable to a conflicting constitution

But if it was a simple boolean, then no, voting to cease being a democracy means you are in fact (either way) no longer a democracy. The opposite result would be a paradox.

The change you need for them to be at the level of Europe is cultural and that takes many generations.