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Re:Monsanto 'compiled dossier' on political opponents by cjensen on Monday May 13, 2019 @06:53PM (#19904847)
The First Amendment is so fundamental to my American understanding of liberty, that I'm dumfounded to learn that a developed country like France has a law that says it is illegal to write a paper summarizing someone's publicly expressed political views.

How different is their concept of liberty that they would even consider a law against compiling public facts?

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Re:Monsanto 'compiled dossier' on political opponents by DivestTrump on Monday May 13, 2019 @06:57PM (#19904889)
Perhaps they too should create blacklists of suspected communists to be reported to the government for extrajudicial consequences. Then France can enjoy freedom like America.
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Re:Monsanto 'compiled dossier' on political opponents by toasterlovin on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:45PM (#19905246)
FWIW, everybody pretty much agrees that McCarthyism was bad. And, more importantly, it's a thing of the past. To be honest, litigating present issues by citing the past positions of people who are now mostly dead is kind of odd and nonsensical.
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Re:Monsanto 'compiled dossier' on political opponents by cjensen on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:06PM (#19904960)
Whataboutism is unwise.

Also, a "blacklist" is little more than a name for a list of boycott targets. Boycotts, and the expression of who to boycott, are fundamental to liberty. That liberty results in people using liberty for good and for bad is not a sensible reason to dismiss liberty.

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