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Amazon lobbyists to be barred from European parliament (ft.com)
18 points by belter 11 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



5 days ago [0](41 points, 7 comments), [1](76 points, 64 comments), [2](76 points, 19 comments), 4 days ago [3](120 points, 103 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527379 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39535528 [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39547976


Does the US Congress ever do this? What are the standards in the US?


The US has strong free speech rights. You cannot just ban a person or group from the right to petition their elected officials without constitutional changes.

Whether that right should exist is perhaps contentious.





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