France - The Judicial Self Upholds the Illusion of Digital Freedom, Denying the Damage to the Child Self
Event Baseline: France's Constitutional Council blocked a bill that would have banned social media access for under-15s, ruling it infringed on freedom of expression. President Macron said he will prepare a new draft.
The state recognizes the harm. It tries to impose a boundary. The court, trapped in the abstraction of 'freedom', refuses to see the actual. The child's mind is being formatted by algorithmic stimulation. The state and the court are two fragments of the same broken thought. One fragment sees the danger, the other sees only its own legal idol. Neither sees the child. They see their own image of what a child should be, or what freedom should be. The division between protection and liberty is an illusion created by thought. There is no protection without liberty, no liberty without protection. They are one movement. The blocking is not wisdom. It is a refusal to perceive. The 'self' of the judge, identified with constitutional purity, cannot act. The 'self' of the president, identified with control, cannot see. Between them, the child is lost. The code continues to run.