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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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Does this mean I have to buy all my Nazi gear on UBid now?
*shucks*
Wow, slashdot has become waaay too liberal. I quit.
Better yet, I surrender.
I'm having trouble understanding what is peculiar about this particular legal issue. Could someone please highlight the important points for me, making liberal use of bold and italics?
You let us sell our Nazi crap and we'll let you sell all the Jerry Lewis retrospective DVDs you frogs can crank out.
That, combined with communist control of many of the French journalist's unions, means that many stories [...] never get adequately reported in the French press.
I'm so glad CNN and Fox News aren't in the hands of those dirty commies, so we always get FAIR AND BALANCED reporting from the US press.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
er wait, someone shoot me
For that, you want the NRA.
So the french are trying to take away Lance Armstrongs latest Tour de France win, as they found he had been using 2 substances banned in france.
Those substances, deodorant and toothpaste.
Thanks, i'll be hear all week, try the veal.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
No the american tradition is to teach the populace that the news is not true unless it says what you already beleive. Oh, and dont watch the news if your a republican, watch fox instead.
If you don't vote, you don't matter, so don't waste your time telling me your opinion
Or perhaps they shall shout insults such as, "I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!"
Of course, then they have to start catapulting cows and other livestock at King Arthur Yahoo.
Haec merda tauri est. Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
That's what Slashdot is for.
"Selling Nazi memorabilia is OK ..."
You mean...
"Selling Nazi memorabilia is OK, in the US." It's not OK in France because it's illegal. Any comparison with the laws in the US would be foolish. The US has never been occupied by another country, except that time Canada destroyed the White House, so you have absolutely no idea of what it's like to have everything you hold dear controlled by another nation.
Don't even begin to think you can understand or empathise with that.
American courts and lawmakers will come to Yahoo's rescue and put the pompous French beaurocrats right back on their socialist asses.
You have no idea what you are talking right? France has actually a very right wing government.
"I think this line is mostly filler"
On the labels of US music CDs.
Q:Why are the boulevards in Paris lined with trees?
A:So the Germans can march in the shade!
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