EuroISPA Attacks French On Yahoo! Order
News It is illegal in France to exhibit or sell racist objects, including Nazi memorabilia. to ban French surfers from sales of Nazi memorabilia. A French Court's decision to force Yahoo! to disable access to its US auction service has been strongly...
[May 26, 2000, 16:38]
EBay, Amazon Avoid French Knot
News EBay, for example, has technology that can recognize French language browsers so as to prevent online auctions of Nazi memorabilia in France, where selling Nazi-related items is illegal. Amazon.com ran into similar problems last year, when the...
[November 21, 2000, 8:47]
Opinion: Yahoo!'s Awkward Corner
News So when Nazi memorabilia becomes available in a country which has a law banning the sale of objects with racist overtones, there is bound to be trouble. feels Nazi memorabilia has a legitimate place on its auction site is a question nobody has yet...
[July 25, 2000, 16:57]
Battle Over Nazi Auction Site Heats Up
News Monday in the auctions of Nazi memorabilia case. It follows attempts from anti-racism groups to ban access due to the number of Nazi-related objects for sale. The Paris High Court will hear evidence from Yahoo!
[July 24, 2000, 10:42]
Yahoo! Defends Itself Over Nazi Auctions
News s auction site is an offence to the collective memory of France because of the large collection of Nazi memorabilia available -- 1163 items last count. s Nazi auctions? puts its case to the High Court in Paris following attempts from anti-racist...
[July 24, 2000, 16:21]
Hacking Tools Tipped To Become Weapons Of The State
News For example, in the Yahoo France case, if the presence of Nazi memorabilia for sale online was likely to lead to public rioting, the French authorities could be justified in deciding to attempt to shut Yahoo down immediately.
[March 10, 2004, 12:35]
Yahoo! Makes U-turn On Porn Sales
News fought the right to sell Nazi memorabilia on its site on the grounds that its Yahoo.com services are US-governed and that auctions of Nazi material cannot be barred because of the right to free speech guaranteed by the US Constitution.
[April 17, 2001, 16:22]
Hackers To Release Anti-censorship Tool
News More liberal countries operating a policy to restrict what citizens can access include Australia, which prevents access to pornographic material, Germany, where Nazi memorabilia is restricted and France.
[April 30, 2001, 13:29]
New Global Treaty Could Pose Threat To The Net
News must block French citizens' access to online auctions of Nazi memorabilia on its US-based site or face fines of $14,000 per day because the items violated France's hate-speech laws. Nazi-paraphernalia case.
[June 22, 2001, 15:43]
Jane Wakefield: Buy Your Babies On The Net
News If the idea of buying babies online is abhorrent, buying Nazi memorabilia is also distasteful and yet it was freely available to anyone that wanted it via Yahoo! While I find it quite disgusting that anyone would want to buy a canister of Zyclon B...
[January 29, 2001, 13:03]
Yahoo Free Speech Battle Thrown Out
News Nazi-related books, posts and memorabilia. A divided federal appeals court on Thursday ducked the question of whether a French court order censoring Nazi-related materials can apply to Yahoo's US-based Web site.
[January 13, 2006, 8:15]
Google Excludes Controversial Sites
News in a Paris court for allowing Third Reich memorabilia and Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to be sold on the company's auction sites. Absent from Google's French and German listings are Web sites that are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to white...
[October 24, 2002, 7:56]
How To Force Yahoo! To Filter Access
News to prevent French internet users accessing part of its US site Â-- the part which offers Nazi memorabilia available for auction -Â- is far from complete. The ruling by judge Jean-Jacques Gomez Monday to compel Yahoo!
[November 22, 2000, 14:33]
Yahoo! Yields To Chinese Web Laws
News was embroiled in a legal dispute in France two years ago after human rights groups sued the company for the sale of Nazi memorabilia on its site. Yahoo! on Tuesday defended its decision to sign off on voluntary content limitations in China, a move...
[August 14, 2002, 11:23]
EBay Bans World Trade Center Items
News Earlier this year, it decided to change its policy on the auction of Nazi memorabilia on its site. Online auctioneer eBay has banned the auction of any items relating to the World Trade Center or the Pentagon on its site.
[September 13, 2001, 17:27]
EBay To Ban Sale Of Hate Items
News Despite the policy, eBay will continue to allow the sale of German stamps and coins dating from the Nazi era, as well as German memorabilia from World War II that does not have Nazi markings on it. Under the revised policy, eBay sellers will no...
[May 4, 2001, 8:51]
Outrage Over Privacy Violation In Cybercrime Treaty
News lost a ruling in France over Nazi memorabilia being sold on its auction site that could force the portal power to censor its network in the United States. In a letter to the Council of Europe secretary general of the Committee of Experts on Cyber...
[December 14, 2000, 8:45]
