I'm confused at your inclusion of the word liberal here. These policies are not what I would consider to be liberal. Liberal as in laissez-faire capitalist democracies who should not impede on my ability to gather, demonstrate, worship, etc.?
So we're basically saying that the liberal democracies don't want to be liberal anymore? I'm just sort of confused as to who the purported boogeyman is in this case.
Liberal democracy "freedom" does not mean personal freedom, it means economic freedom. They have always been about preserving that, and it is only because technology was not effective enough before that the personal freedom tradeoff happened.
So we're basically saying that the liberal democracies don't want to be liberal anymore? I'm just sort of confused as to who the purported boogeyman is in this case.