Liberty, Non

There's less freedom in France:

A CSA poll conducted for Le Journal du Dimanche ahead of the upcoming Liberties Summit has found that 57 per cent of the French public think that their freedoms have been weakened over the past eight years. Conversely, just seven per cent claimed that liberties have been strengthened since 2017, when Emmanuel Macron ascended to the Élysée Palace. Commenting on the results, the paper remarked: “This is no longer a criticism, it is a breakdown of trust. A latent divorce between citizens and a power perceived as incapable of preserving fundamental rights, or worse, which is indifferent to them.” “The question of freedoms, long confined to the speeches of intellectuals, is now returning to the heart of public debate. But not in the theoretical form given to it by the speakers of yesteryear. It is a worried, almost defensive return, in the face of an accumulation of shocks: health crisis, censorship on social networks, Wokist pressure on expression… So many cracks in the democratic structure,” Le JDD added.

Seems like France might be headed for another revolution...