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Wed 13 May 2009 @ 08:24 AM

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Government/Business Entanglements

I was reading a post on Slashdot about a guy who got fired from his television network job for sending a private email from a private account to a member of parliament expressing a dissenting opinion about some proposed legislation. He sent it to his MP, who forwarded it to the sponsoring minister, who forwarded it to his employer, who fired him for expressing strong differences with the company's strategy.

The post went on to explain:

French corporations and government are entangled in ways that Americans might find unfamiliar.

To which I immediately thought *Really?!?* Maybe Americans from 2007 might find it unfamiliar. It's all too familiar territory, and only getting worse everyday.

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