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Yahoo! Not Protected From French Anti-Nazi Laws
snoopsk writes "An appeals
court ruled that Yahoo is not protected from French legal attacks
due to Nazi-related items sold on Yahoo's auction site. Backed by the
ACLU, Yahoo
intends to defend its First Amendment rights should a French court
try to enforce French anti-hate laws. This case could have huge
implications for free speech online if the French courts are successful
in forcing Yahoo to remove this content.
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This is a conflict. Aren't the French supposed to have surrendered by now?
--- Asking inconvenient questions for over 30 years...
How many more times are we going to let the courts, Congress, the President, etc. surrender our national sovereignty like this? Don't we pay them to follow and enforce the law, not surrender it to foreign entities?
Yeah, this'll probably get marked Flamebait for asking such a provoking question.
There is a difference between "insightful" and "inciteful" other than spelling.
the 9th circuit court is a gigantic crapschoot. its the most overturned - their insanely good decisions and their incredibly retarded decisions. from saying that the pledge of alliegance shouldn't be mandatory, the grokster decision, and now this. they've obviously got much better drugs than i do.
Don't worry - its just stigmata. Pass me a napkin and don't you dare tell my mother.
Because we are basically all Americans here and are used to throwing our weight around internationally.
Of course the Slashdotters think that the easiest solution is to either pull out of France (obviously a good idea to lose money when you don't agree with something) or to fight them with an American organization...
...since when do we listen to the French?
Excellent troll. I admire your style, one line of genuinely insightfull comment on legal jurisdictions, followed by 2 lines of "I hate frogs" jingoistic rethoric. I'm impressed.
Of course, the fact that france is enforcing an anti-nazi law is quite surprising.
Its not like they were ever, you know, invaded and occupied by Nazis or anything, right?
I'm surprised that years of deprivation under Nazi occupation could leave any stigma like that...who'd have thought?
the anti-jewish hatred that runs rampant in france.
Yup, them frogs sure are racist!
You can't take the sky from me...
The french capitulated with Hitler more or less 100%. This causes cognitive dissonance in the french mind because they are taught they are the pinnacle of humanity. Thus a few historical details need to be tossed in the memory hole to alleviate this problem.
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
A lot more than Yahoo need be worried here. Once there is case law that a the US operations of a company are subject to laws of foreign nations (not that is exactly the case with Yahoo) hungry lawyers will be nipping at everyone and anyone.
Whats to stop a another group in europe suing a US company with only web operations? Who's to say that the final ruling on this wont be stretched to take this instance into account.
Easy.. Yahoo! = American company.. Fuck the French!
What is your penile percentile?
the usual US bullying that work with small countries doesn't work with France and the EU
In case you haven't noticed our government generally doesn't give a shit what France thinks, or the EU for that matter. That's pretty much been Bush's stick for the past four years.
In fact, most Americans don't really give a shit what the EU thinks either. And really, why should we? It's not as if you boys are capable of causing us any real trouble if we happen to do something you don't like. Just look how effective you've been so far.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Walked around their Maginot Line? Hardly. Germany took control of the Maginot Line in short order. The French practically surrendered on sight and offered to man the line for them while they rounce the rest of Europe. DeGaul was a wimp and allowed Hitler to take France far too quickly.
If the land was given back to them, the "native-americans" (every single one I've ever met, which adds up to alot since I lived in Arizona) would just sell it right back to us for whiskey and the opportunity to steal from and kill each other. I have traveled widely, and no other group of people is sadder. They are given more opportunities than most people in the world can imagine, yet they continue to live like animals. My brother knew a guy that actually took the time to go to college for free (paid for by the US government and available to all n-as) and got his degree, but then went right back to the reservation because it was free and didn't require any work. With that attitude, I say "Fuck 'Em!"
I've got the perfect solution: how about we ban France from the 'net. They can have their own intranet, run any way they like, and we are left the heck alone.
"Apparently, however, you are willing to stomp on the freedom of foreign powers to govern themselves as they see fit"
Why not just get a flag that say's I am a moron and wave that you around you stupid fuck!
what?