I don't recall one single instance of a Western government in the last 80 years rolling back one single law or regulation that suppressed individual privacy and freedom.

It is true that there have been very significant reforms improving certain individual social freedoms, but if you pay attention, they have always been conceptualized as "the individual as part of so and so collective".

Namely, women, homosexuals and, where applicable, racial and ethnonational minorities or groups (this last category, not so much, universally).

All the while, true individual, thus universal and truly collective, freedoms have been and continue to be completely decimated and, even worse, culturally condemned.

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