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In France, it's not only about what you say or "like". Over the last decade, several men have been sentenced to 2 years of jail for what they read ("consultatio
by idoubtit 6y ago
In France, it's not only about what you say or "like". Over the last decade, several men have been sentenced to 2 years of jail for what they read ("consultation régulière de site terroristes" / regularly visiting terrorist web sites).
This is no surprise to anyone who knows how the French law evolved in recent years. A NGO even wrote that legislation in France was more repressive than in Turkey (the law texts, not the legal application).
- leephillips 6y agoWithout looking into the case, I have to say this seems quite depressing, especially for what most people still think of as a free society. What about a journalist or scholar, who may be monitoring these groups? You can be jailed merely for watching what they are up to, without participating or endorsing them?
- rtkwe 6y agoI'd wager the law is written more as a way to be able to charge people who the authorities are concerned about but haven't provably done anything yet. Not that that's much better but that's the slightly more reasonable application of the law. There's been several times where the people who've gone on to do attacks were known to whatever the national security services were but hadn't been caught actually planning the thing. It's the kind of law that'd be great in a world where government is and could be guaranteed to always be run by angels and saints but is absolutely untenable in the real world.
- seszett 6y ago> consultation régulière de site terroristes As far as I know, that was struck down in 2017 as unconstitutional though.