First, I think the argument is not against how French citizens deal with this, but how the government is pushing this stuff to begin with. Second, I'd like to

First, I think the argument is not against how French citizens deal with this, but how the government is pushing this stuff to begin with. Second, I'd like to agree with you, I really would. BUT: After the charlie hebdo and bataclan attacks, seeing... * completely unopposed état "d'urgence" being prolonged for TWO YEARS when the real urgency was over within a few days * the way that it was abused [1], and largely not discussed let alone really opposed in public or by my relatively tech savvy colleagues and friends in private conversation * how some of the most outrageous parts have been made into regular law now * how we still have military patrolling everywhere * bag checks at university lecture halls (seen yesterday) * the vigipirate logo (which looks like straight out of a dystopian scifi comic [2]) plastered all over town * the kindergarden on my way to work still being surrounded with concrete barriers blocking the parking, to ostensibly (and practically completely irrelevantly, given the geometry of the place) block a car from driving through the fence after all of that, I have little to no confidence that France is any less prone to a slide into totalitarianism than any other country. :( [1]: https://wiki.laquadrature.net/%C3%89tat_urgence/Recensement https://wiki.laquadrature.net/%C3%89tat_urgence/Recensement [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigipirate#/media/File:Vigipirate_2014.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigipirate#/media/File:Vigipir...