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******* Background: http://www.politechbot.com/p-01232.html http://www.politechbot.com/p-01189.html ******* >From: "Melinda Gierisch" <gieriscm@hotmail.com> >To: declan@well.com >Subject: Yahoo gets 3 months to comply with French anti-racist law >Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:48:21 EST > >Declan, > >See this yet? > >Melinda Gierisch > >http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=137489 > >Monday, 20 November 2000 13:08 (ET) > >Yahoo gets 3 months to comply with French anti-racist law >By ELIZABETH BRYANT > >PARIS, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- In a ruling with potentially far-reaching >implications for the Internet, a French judge Monday gave Yahoo Inc. three >months to ban access by French viewers to a Nazi-related auction site, or >face a stiff financial penalties. > >The judgment puts to rest -- for the moment at least -- seven months of >litigation against the U.S. Internet giant, which was accused of breaking >French law banning the display and sale of racist and anti-Semitic objects. > >But the court case, involving charges that Yahoo displayed more than 1,000 >Nazi-related objects on its auction site, sparked a fierce debate about >free speech and the limits of national jurisdiction over the Internet. > >Yahoo lawyer Christophe Pecnard said, "We are going to examine all the >possibilities now, and obviously appealing this decision is one of the >possibilities." > >In his ruling, Judge Jean-Jacques Gomez said a panel of Internet experts >believed that a combination of screening Internet users for their name, >nationality and place of residence would be 90 percent effective in >blocking French from accessing the U.S. auction site. Yahoo has already >screened its French site for such access. >[..] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------