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France: Criminal Charges Against Yahoo's Ex-CEO
Hank Reardon writes: "According to
this C|NET article, former Yahoo CEO Timothy Koogle is being charged criminally for allowing the sale of various Nazi memorabilia on Yahoo's auctions pages. Ther article notes that the charges were filed in regardless of the offending items being removed from the French Yahoo! pages. Is it just me or do the lines between national and international law seem to be blurring?"
My first, too!
the chances of him being extradited for something like this are pretty slim, I'd expect. So he can't go to France or any of its territories from now on, big deal.
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Isn't supression of this sort akin to the supression the Nazis encouraged?
Also, though the Nazi movement is an embarrasing (to say the absolute least) stain on the history of mankind, is not not nonetheless a piece of our history.
I would hate to have our children forget about the horrors the Nazis caused, and censorship of this kind seems to be aimed at that.
Wow! This must be a PERSONAL letter, just for me!
If I were he, I'd go to Germany, join the open source movement in the Bundestag, and get ready for the tanks of the Fourth Reich to start rolling triumphantly through Paris.
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When Koogle vowed to vigorously defend himself in court, France immediately surrendered.
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So if some random person runs into a store in france and stick some nazi stuff with a price tag on the shelf, the gov can punish the store?
After all, they were selling it, right? Even if they didn't put it there, and they would take it down if they knew about it. They're still selling it.
Dumb.
they're a bunch of snobbish wankers anyways.
Do they feel they need to prove a point. This is almost as childish as claiming ownership of hyperlinks, and trying to sue based on it.
I think there's something wrong with those Europeans.
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The Nazi regime was horrible, but it is far more more dangerous to try to 'ignore' it. Those who are committed to forgetting history are bound to repeat it. Don't follow the path of ignorance.
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There should be an international courthouse in Antartica. All international cases must be tried there. That would stop all these frivolous lawsuits. After all, who would bother to file a lawsuit there except the truly grieved.
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Three French Jewish and anti-Semitism groups pressed for the criminal charges in October. (emphasis added)
Okay... So the French Nazis are upset over lost business?
They should have waited to file charges until Timothy Koogle was vacationing on the French Riviera, rather than having to try to extradite him.
I guess it's time to brush up on your foreign law, since we will all have to start obeying the laws of every other country in the world, including those that are mutually exclusive.
Why is Grand Theft Auto a much more serious crime than Reckless Driving?
The article from Yahoo themselves.
Well, in that case France should charge a lot of the junk store owners in Toronto. In particular those on Church St.
I have seen plenty of Nazi war decorations (or medals, whatever they're called) for sale in those stores. And those were the cheap ones, which about a third of the Reich Army got just for fighting in the war.
And I'm sure the Nazi memorabilia is big business throughout the world. I'm not into it, so I don't know for sure, but it's a safe bet.
Going after the CEO of Yahoo for this is ridiculous. I guess there's a judge in France whith too much time on his hands.
Just because they're smelly doesn't mean a bunch of ignorant krauts should have their way with them.
There's only one way to achieve work domination:
Economics.
There isn't enough people on the planet to police everyone, therefore you have to take over their values, attitudes, and monetary systems. Fuck Hitler's grand army. He just had a small dick.
Who would want this sorry hunk of rock anyway?
The French government is acting very much like a Nazi regime. Or worse. It makes me think that these people actually picked this up from the German invaders during WW2 and passed the concepts on down to their children, and so on.
When the French citizen clicks on the Yahoo.COM site, they know they are going to the USA. This is the electronic online age equivalent to traveling, including overseas.
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now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
hi all
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despite the fact I'm french, I think
- the government is NOT involved
- this is jewish organization that wants to suite against Yahoo, even they know internet is not supposed to be under control
- and then, they do it in france because it's not possible to do this kind of suit in USA due to constitution.
tha's all folks
He was trying to make the world safer for White Folk.
Who Rules America?
Does anyone else think that com.com is the lamest domain name possible?
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
Your ass is loud too, better shut it! Who is ignorant here?
Typical yank hater, doesn't know his head from his dick.
There are laws against defaming Stalin and the Soviet Union, it's called "discrimination on the basis of political opinion".
Fascism isn't an opinion, fascism is a crime!
Some of them are coming true. Like the One World Government bit. i always thought that was a load of shit. But looking around today I'm beginning to wonder.
Some others too. The implantable microchips. Yikes!
Cameras everywhere.
An official government disinformation office that they aren't even embarrassed to talk about.
Taking guns away from people. Last I heard, gun shops around the country had to more or less close their doors because of a government "delay" in license renawal. We're talking 10's of thousands of shops. Add to that a growing list of tricks that are being used for the sole purpose of disqualifying someone from owning a gun. And keep in mind, it doesn't matter if you like guns or not, it's a hard-coded aspect of our society. It's not debatable!
I think the government is getting so bizarre that watching all the crazy news releases about them is a kind of a cheap entertainment within itself. Ashcroft covering up the statues in his office, for one. Stuff like that is fascinating.
Someone in the Supreme Court commented on the number of crazies in government, and said something along the lines of, "It's gonna be a busy time for Supreme Court"
their asses would be speaking German right now.
AC, You're seriously misguided. I take that back. You're an imbecile. It's hard to compare mass murderers with mass murderers. Hitler and Stalin both fit the description. It is quite unfortunate that we took the side of Russia in WWII. We should have let Hitler and Stalin destroy each other.
it is very true.
There seems to be a common misconception that it's the French government that wants Yahoo down. This seems to be wrong.
The plaintiff seems to be an org call the "Jewish Community of France". I've not managed to check if they even have the French nationality at all. Most French people I know do not agree at all with the lawsuit.
-- B.
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That's our problem. We DON'T bomb everyone else. It's about time we did.