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World Census Adjusts Censorship Rating
The World Census today announced an important change to the way it tracks Personal Freedom in nations.
"Until approximately six years ago, we tracked a particular form of censorship known as Personal Censorship," a spokesperson explained. "We then found a better way using two alternative metrics, Political Censorship and Free Speech. And so we abandoned the old concept of Personal Censorship."
"Or so we thought. It turns out that in older nations, our records were still maintaining the old Personal Censorship rating. And this could act as a permament bias on a nation's Personal Freedom, causing that score to be higher or lower than it should, no matter what laws the nation passed."
Approximately five percent of the current world population is affected, the World Census says.
In finally purging its records of Personal Censorship, effective immediately, the World Census is confident that its ratings will be more accurate than ever.
