Positive freedom is your freedom to do: to vote, to wear the clothing you want, to own arms, to blow smoke into your neighbor’s porch when they’re trying to read a book outside on a sunny day. Negative freedom is your freedom from things: from being forced to take an impossible literacy exam before being allowed to vote, from to wear clothing you dislike or find oppressive, from having your cellular traffic recorded, from having your neighbors blow smoke onto your porch when you’re trying to read a book outside on a sunny day.
