Welcome to the World Wide Web. Passport, Please?

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Welcome to the World Wide Web. Passport, Please?

 By LISA GUERNSEY

Last fall, a French judge named Jean-Jacques Gomez made Internet
history, and attracted a flock of critics, when he ordered the Yahoo
Web site to prevent French residents from viewing Nazi memorabilia in
its online auctions. 

To Yahoo, the appearance of Nazi uniforms and other objects was
simply an unintended byproduct of the borderless Internet: the items,
which were being offered by sellers all over the world, happened to
be on French computer screens. 

But Judge Gomez was intent on upholding French law, which largely
prohibits the display of Nazi insignia. He ordered Yahoo to keep
French viewers from seeing Nazi items and to keep any pro-Nazi
comments from appearing on any Yahoo pages available in France or to
pay fines of more than $13,000 a day.

See http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/15/technology/15BORD.html or
http://www.iht.com/articles/13640.htm for the full article.

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