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              | Date: 2000-05-24 
 
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 Zur Entscheidung eines französischen Gerichts, dass Yahoo
 Frankreich den Zugang zu Auktionen von Nazi-Devotionalien
 über seine Sites blockierne müsse [Hintergrund siehe Link
 below] Auszüge aus einem Posting von Meryem Marzouki
 [Iris France] auf der internen Liste der Global Internet Liberty
 Campaign.
 
 post/scrypt: Die Fragen dazu stellte Peter Kuhm von
 VIBE.AT, die nach einem Proposal der quintessenz in den
 globalen Dachverband der Civil Libertarians beigetreten ist.
 
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 The judgement says that since yahoo.com pages can be
 accessed by users in France, these pages must respect the
 French law (this is the most crazy thing I've ever heard. What
 is normally considered is that a site edited by a French
 person/company/org in any place of the world or by a
 person/company/org established in France must respect the
 French law, and that's all). It seems that the judgement also
 says that the French subsidiary Yahoo.fr should also put a
 warning on its site, saying something like "accessing the
 yahoo.com auction pages may lead to a violation of the
 French law". I cannot really comment since the text of the
 judgement is not yet available, but nothing in the French law
 says that it is forbidden to consult or read or see (or maybe
 even possess, but I have to check that) nazi material. What
 is against the French law is to publicly exhibit, sell, or wear
 such material (except for the purpose of making a movie, or
 things like that). This means that if a French person access
 to nazi material on a web page, the violation of the French
 law will be made by the editor of this site, and not by the
 person who is accessing it !
 
 Our position, in our reaction published yesterday, was to
 recommend that LICRA and UEJF and others, instead of
 suing companies like Yahoo, should organize the boycott of
 such companies, since in fact they aren't proposing nazi
 material for ideological purposes, but simply because there
 are customers for that, and that this boycott may have a
 pedagogical result in the fight against neo-nazism, together
 with an economical impact on yahoo. Another
 recommendation we've made is that the French Parliament
 should examine the possibility to forbid that companies
 which are violating the French law be established in France,
 or have French subsidiary. In fact, their establishment is
 actually forbidden in this case, since, by definition, a
 company established in France should respect the French
 law. As a matter of fact, the newly adopted Directive on e-
 commerce has a very precise definition of the 'country of
 establishement' for a given company.
 
 > >What is new and crazy is what the jugde has decided. >
 > ACK
 
 This case can however be (by some aspects only) compared
 to the Felix Somm/Compuserve case in Germany
 (condemned in 1998, and released afterwards).
 
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 Background
 http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=29407
 
 The Global Internet Liberty Campaign
 http://www.gilc.org
 
 Iris France
 http://www.iris.sgdg.org
 
 VIBE
 http://www.vibe.at
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 edited by Harkank
 published on: 2000-05-24
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