Yahoo suit can go ahead in Nazi symbols case

[Cheyenne]

I still don't see how a U.S. company doing business on the internet can be sued in France! Any of the lawyers here have a clue what kind of penalties are involved if Yahoo loses?


Bloomberg News
Tuesday, February 26, 2002

PARIS - A Paris court has ruled that a lawsuit filed against Yahoo! Inc. and its former Chief Executive Officer Tim Koogle by human rights activists can go ahead, according to the lawyer for the Association of Deportees of Auschwitz.

Koogle, who left Yahoo in May, was sued earlier this year for allegedly minimizing the Holocaust by auctioning Nazi paraphernalia on Yahoo's auction site when he was running the Santa Clara, California-based company.

The decision is another episode in the long-running tussle between Yahoo and civil-rights groups, who want to take down objects or symbols that infringe France's ban on symbols glorifying the Nazi regime from Web sites. A U.S. court in November ruled that the No. 1 Internet search site doesn't need to obey a French court asking it to block Nazi items from its Web- auction service.

``This decision opens an essential path in future pursuits against Web site hosts,'' said Charles Korman, a lawyer representing the human rights group with Korman, Mandel & Henaff in Paris.

Paris's Tribunal de Grande Instance called for a new hearing on May 7.

http://www.businesstoday.com/business/technology/ap_nazi02262002.htm

 

[Tyrael]

I guess this means France gets to decide what can and can't be on the net from now on.

 

[patient1]

Edited to remove my reactionary sarcastic remarks with regard to
the French government. See apollogy below:

 

[Azwed]

Its France they never have a clue about what is going on in the real world.

 

[Texan]

It was a French court in Paris that made the ruling. I think, all that means is that Koogle may not want to take any vacations in France for awhile.

It's not like the U.S. is going to enforce any judgements made by a French court. I just hope Koogle and Yahoo don't have any assets in France.

Of course, if Koogle looses, the plaintiffs are likely to try to get the EU to enforce the judgement. Then we'll see if the EU is really a mechanism for international justice, or just a means of economic competition with the U.S.

Personally, I think France is still pissed that English is rapidly becoming the "universal" language of the planet. The internet is one of the main reasons for that, and the French are trying to find a way to stop it. For evidence, I quote from the article above:
``This decision opens an essential path in future pursuits against Web site hosts,'' said Charles Korman,

just a thought

 

[Krypto]

Royale, wit cheese.

I wouldn't worry about it. France, like always, will surrender. They just don't like to be reminded of WW2. Pussies.

 

[p_p_man]

Quoted from Cheyenne...

"I still don't see how a U.S. company doing business on the internet can be sued in France!"

The same way that America tried to sue European companies from trading with Cuba under some stupid law your country passed a few years ago.

Can't take it when it's dished out eh?

 

[p_p_man]

Re: Royale, wit cheese.

I wouldn't worry about it. France, like always, will surrender. They just don't like to be reminded of WW2. Pussies.

And I suppose you also believe in the myth that America saved Europe's arses in WWII.

Well I think I believe in fairy stories too...

 

[p_p_man]

I guess this means France gets to decide what can and can't be on the net from now on.

Apparantly China can. Why not France?

 

[Problem Child]

Re: Re: Royale, wit cheese.

And I suppose you also believe in the myth that America saved Europe's arses in WWII.

Well I think I believe in fairy stories too...

You're rapidly moving from a simple irritating jerk to a full blown revisionist asshole.

 

[Krypto]

PP Man

Europe in general, I wasn't referring to. It's France that I was shitting on. We helped Europe, Europe helped us. Europe good. But France folded like a card table.

 

[lavender]

 

[p_p_man]

Re: PP Man

Europe in general, I wasn't referring to. It's France that I was shitting on. We helped Europe, Europe helped us. Europe good. But France folded like a card table.

"Any enemy of my friend is an enemy of mine"...

Don't you know that only Europeans can insult the French, you foreigners aren't allowed to...

 

[Krypto]

Re: Re: PP Man

"Any enemy of my friend is an enemy of mine"...

Don't you know that only Europeans can insult the French, you foreigners aren't allowed to...

And are the only people allowed to insult Americans other Americans? Actually, I love when foreigners insult us. They're just jealous that we invented breakdancing. Electric Bugaloo, baybee.

 

[patient1]

Re: Re: PP Man

Don't you know that only Europeans can insult the French, you foreigners aren't allowed to...

I apollogize for my offhand remarks in regard to France. I have no right to criticize the pollitics of another continent. I have nothing to contribute, & if I did, it's none of my business, besides being bad manners .

I hope you can treat me with similar courtesy.

 

[p_p_man]

Re: Re: Re: PP Man

And are the only people allowed to insult Americans other Americans? Actually, I love when foreigners insult us. They're just jealous that we invented breakdancing. Electric Bugaloo, baybee.

and don't forget that height of gastronomical disaster...

The Big Mac!

 

[Krypto]

I guess this means France gets to decide what can and can't be on the net from now on.

France is on the 'net now? Wondered where that smell was coming from....<;

 

[p_p_man]

France is on the 'net now? Wondered where that smell was coming from....<;

Florida?

 

[p_p_man]

Re: Re: Re: PP Man

I apollogize for my offhand remarks in regard to France. I have no right to criticize the pollitics of another continent. I have nothing to contribute, & if I did, it's none of my business, besides being bad manners .

I hope you can treat me with similar courtesy.

You're alright patient1...

Come on in and join the gang...

 

[Krypto]

Florida?

No, that's just old folks and Cubans. Ben-Gay and bad cologne....all I smell every time I drive down to Florida. At least Orlando has Universal...mmm Islands of Adventure...

 

[Problem Child]

Re: Re: Re: PP Man

And are the only people allowed to insult Americans other Americans? Actually, I love when foreigners insult us. They're just jealous that we invented breakdancing. Electric Bugaloo, baybee.

Next week pp will be telling us that we were never even in WWII.

"Of course American involvement (much less any major role) in WWII is a creation of the American media machine, which is controlled by evil corporations like Enron. Newsreels depicting thousands of American troops landing at Normandy from a 5,000 ship American-built armada in the English channel were actually filmed at Malibu, California. The director even had a small diner that was in frame blown up before shooting and all its employees poisoned to shut them up. This may seem dastardly to us holier-than-thou Eurotrash, but remember...Americans are evil and cruel people. Put nothing past them.

Those crafty Americans even went so far as to create fictional battles in the mojave desert to pretend they were in Africa with us, and filmed thousands of actors 'supposedly' dying on a beach purported to be Iwo Jima, although it looks suspiciously like Hawaii (which they ruthlessly stole from the Hawaiians, BTW).

Americans, my friends, are so evil, so ruthless, that they even took thousands of men and amputated their limbs and made them live in veterans hospitals for the rest of their live to make it look like they had actually been in a war. Disgusting.

No, dear friends. America was never in WWII. There was never a Dunkirk, and Rommel never kicked our British asses all over the North African desert for three years with half the men we had. Those are American lies. Americans never flew daylight bombing raids over Germany with a 75% loss rate to defend europe from the Nazi threat. Monty never got 15,000 men killed or wounded in operation Market-Garden for no good reason. All lies.

What? Did America drop the bomb on an innocent Japan? Oh, well of course they did that."

 

[p_p_man]

No, that's just old folks and Cubans. Ben-Gay and bad cologne....all I smell every time I drive down to Florida.

Haven't you forgotten a small matter of vote rigging?

 

[Azwed]

PC is the master.

 

[p_p_man]

PC is the master.

All Hail PC!!

Just hedging my bets...

 

[Azwed]

All Hail PC!!

Just hedging my bets...

You best do that.

I mean we all know the UK is really the 52nd state right after Canada.