I stopped "supporting France" after the Charlie Hebdo attack the moment I saw they were abusing that public support to push for more censorship and surveillance.
Now they're looking at extending the emergency powers with very little oversight (by definition) indefinitely, all because the people showed "support" when the attacks happened.
So I'm done playing their sick game. I hope more people (from France especially) will start thinking the same way before it's too late.
EDIT: Relevant ruling from the European Court of Human Rights vs Russia's mass surveillance program:
> The Court noted that interception of communications pursued the legitimate aims of the protection
of national security and public safety, the prevention of crime and the protection of the economic
well-being of the country. However, in view of the risk that a system of secret surveillance set up to
protect national security might undermine or even destroy democracy under the cloak of defending
it.
http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng-press
France, just like the U.S. after 9/11, claimed high and mighty that they must "protect their liberties". You can't protect your liberties by killing them. You would think this should be common sense, but apparently it isn't in today's political climate in our "democracies".
Now they're looking at extending the emergency powers with very little oversight (by definition) indefinitely, all because the people showed "support" when the attacks happened.
So I'm done playing their sick game. I hope more people (from France especially) will start thinking the same way before it's too late.
EDIT: Relevant ruling from the European Court of Human Rights vs Russia's mass surveillance program:
> The Court noted that interception of communications pursued the legitimate aims of the protection of national security and public safety, the prevention of crime and the protection of the economic well-being of the country. However, in view of the risk that a system of secret surveillance set up to protect national security might undermine or even destroy democracy under the cloak of defending it.
http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng-press
France, just like the U.S. after 9/11, claimed high and mighty that they must "protect their liberties". You can't protect your liberties by killing them. You would think this should be common sense, but apparently it isn't in today's political climate in our "democracies".