Comment Re:Typical /. uninformed flamebait (Score 2) 280
Let me sum up the case, I don't think you've read correct material about it.
Three French anti-racist associations sued Yahoo! Inc. (not Yahoo! France): they wanted Yahoo! to stop displaying Nazi-related objects on their website yahoo.com (again, not yahoo.fr) and on their affiliate site geocities.com
The court ruled that Yahoo! Inc. had to block French citizens from accessing pages containing this stuff, based on French law saying that you can't display Nazi-related objects in France (and though the server is in the US, pages can be displayed in France, that's what the court said)
Yahoo! said it was impossible to do. The court named experts to decide if it could be done or not. A few months later, the experts proposed techniques that permitted Yahoo! to block French citizens from accessing the Nazi stuff. The court ruled that Yahoo! then had to do it.
Now Yahoo! refused to do it (though it decided to remove Nazi stuff from Auctions, and some other stuff too) and an US court has to decide if the French court ruling can be applied in the US.
A summary of the case (in French [sorry I didn't find anything in English], made by a lawyer) is available online here.
Yahoo! was never ordered to cease commercial activity in France, and it is still operating over here (see yahoo.fr).
Everything you're saying about Yahoo! being a French business appealing to an US court is also wrong. This is US based Yahoo! Inc. that was sued in France.
Three French anti-racist associations sued Yahoo! Inc. (not Yahoo! France): they wanted Yahoo! to stop displaying Nazi-related objects on their website yahoo.com (again, not yahoo.fr) and on their affiliate site geocities.com
The court ruled that Yahoo! Inc. had to block French citizens from accessing pages containing this stuff, based on French law saying that you can't display Nazi-related objects in France (and though the server is in the US, pages can be displayed in France, that's what the court said)
Yahoo! said it was impossible to do. The court named experts to decide if it could be done or not. A few months later, the experts proposed techniques that permitted Yahoo! to block French citizens from accessing the Nazi stuff. The court ruled that Yahoo! then had to do it.
Now Yahoo! refused to do it (though it decided to remove Nazi stuff from Auctions, and some other stuff too) and an US court has to decide if the French court ruling can be applied in the US.
A summary of the case (in French [sorry I didn't find anything in English], made by a lawyer) is available online here.
Yahoo! was never ordered to cease commercial activity in France, and it is still operating over here (see yahoo.fr).
Everything you're saying about Yahoo! being a French business appealing to an US court is also wrong. This is US based Yahoo! Inc. that was sued in France.
