Since 9/11, more and more freedoms are being restricted in the name of defending liberty. New visa requirements and other obstacles to travel, more intimate data collected by governments, and the presence of video cameras everywhere – at once benign and intrusive – remind one more of George Orwell’s Big Brother than of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty.
自9/11以来，越来越多的自由被以维护自由的名义受到限制。实行新的签证限制以及其他旅行限制，政府收集更多的个人隐私信息以及摄像镜头遍布各处。这些良性的措施打扰人们的隐私，让我们想起了乔治·奥维尔的&lt;&lt;大哥&gt;&gt;以及约翰·米勒的&lt;&lt;论自由&gt;&gt;。