Re: Recording opinions
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> | 
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| Date: | Saturday, September 22, 2001, 19:30 | 
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Markus wrote:
> > Recording opinions is illegal in Sweden?  Wow, that's weird.  It sounds
>like
> > something out of some SF repressive society.  No one is alloed to have
>an
> > opinion.  If you do have one don't dare to record it.  If you do . . .
>
>I think he meant 'registering' peoples opinions, like, making huge
>databases
>from where you can check on your employees so you don't have any
>communists,
>socialists, etc. employed. A way to avoid McCarthyistic trends, but this
>law
>hasn't stopped SÄPO ('SÄkerhetsPOlisen', the police of safety) from doing
>precisely that.
>(Disclaimer: my knowledge about this is limited to Swedish media in
>Finland,
>so I might be wrong)
You're right.
                                       Andreas
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