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******** Background: http://www.politechbot.com/p-01189.html ******** http://news.excite.com/news/r/000616/08/france-usa-yahoo PARIS (Reuters) - The co-founder of Yahoo! Inc., Jerry Yang, has rejected a French court order to stop Web surfers in France gaining access to sales of Nazi memorabilia which appear on one of the Web sites it hosts. "We are not going to change the content of our sites in the United States just because someone in France is asking us to do so," Yang told French daily Liberation in an interview published Friday. [...] Yang said he was not going to take any steps. "Asking us to filter access to our sites according to the nationality of Web surfers is very naive," he said. Lawyers representing Yahoo had told the court that it was not technically possible for the company to scan the content of all the sites carried on its service. "We have a lot of respect for national sovereignty, we also have a lot of respect for the Internet," Yang said. He said Yahoo! did not control the Internet. [...] The suit was started by the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism and the Union of French Jewish Students. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------