Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rest of the world is a very neoliberal rag. Typical bay area socially liberal but fiscally conservative crowd. They will shake their fist and yell at the sky about alleged oppression elsewhere and praise the technocratic policies at the same time. Think New Yorker/The Atlantic for the SV crowd.
"bay area socially liberal"? Um, if you say so. None are in the Bay Area is that helps. Most of the writers (almost 90%) live or work in the countries that are covered (so are outside the US and EU).
It is bad faith to play submarine on this forum, editor.