What would it take for anyone to build a "free internet" index?

[FranklyFlawless]

@anon7180143

What would it take for anyone to built a new “free internet” index where every country is evaluated on how free and open its internet is?

A commitment to maintain it.

@anon7180143

how many websites does a country has banned/restricted on its clearnet? Are there other metrics and points on which we can evaluate?

OONI, as mentioned by @ch0ccyra1n, and also mentioned by me in another related topic:

Where to point the VPN to avoid age-gating, censorship and geo-restrictions?

It looks like you are already doing some experimentation for your own use cases, so our ability to provide tailored suggestions may become increasingly limited. However, I do have an important resource from OONI that may be useful for you to reduce the amount of manual testing: You will want to change the Test Name value to RiseupVPN Test first, then select a country of your choosing to see what websites are allowed or blocked based on the test suite. If there are no results, you can probe f…

@anon7180143

What do you all as the community think?

I can only speak for myself, but I would not want to maintain a project where my remaining faith in humanity slowly evaporates everytime I look and work on it.