Citizens should resist the impulse to impose virtue by force.

We cannot be complacent. Prohibiting obnoxious content on social media is censorship. Gathering biometric data is surveillance. Locking up potential offenders before they commit any crime is repression. Wounding demonstrators is state-sponsored violence, and imposing neutrality in newsrooms is authoritarianism. Citizens should resist the impulse to impose virtue by force.

Gaspard Koenig

FT

https://www.generationlibre.eu/en/gaspard-koenig/

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