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"To fear video surveillance is to be afraid of the police and the judiciary"

2021-10-29T18:44:27.247Z


TRIBUNE - Since delinquency restricts freedoms, one can quite be liberal and defend the video surveillance which makes it possible to contain it, argues the essayist Nicolas Bouzou. He finds the comparisons with the Chinese model irrelevant since the use of these ...


After the health pass, it is video surveillance that breaks the family of liberal thought.

Irrespective of their effectiveness, these policies would be harmful in themselves to the extent that they would restrict freedoms and place us under a regime of general surveillance.

In reality, I believe exactly the opposite and I would like to plead, in the name of liberalism, for video surveillance as I have defended the health pass in the name of the same values.

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As Raymond Aron had shown, there is no such thing as freedom made from a block.

Freedom is not a light bulb that you turn on or off.

It covers multiple areas: freedom of speech, economic freedom, social freedom, freedom to enjoy one's possessions… The protection of these freedoms is guaranteed by the rule of law (this is the first, absolutely necessary condition) and their extension. is permitted by liberal public policies.

Thus, authorizing female contraception or allowing abortion were

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Source: lefigaro

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