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                Date: 2000-05-24
                 
                 
                Zensur: Surfnazis bei Yahoo Frankreich
                
                 
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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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