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| France to try ex-Yahoo! boss in Nazi auction case |
| 2004-03-20 |
| The Paris court of appeal ruled Wednesday that it is competent to hear the case against former Yahoo! boss Timothy Koogle who was acquitted a year ago of illegally selling Nazi memorabilia over the Internet. The decision means the appeal hearing will go ahead later this year. Koogle, who headed the US Internet company from 1995 to 2001, was brought to court by the Association of Auschwitz Deportees, which said he had broken French laws that ban the exhibition of Nazi uniforms and insignia. Wednesday’s hearing centred on arguments over what jurisdictions should apply to Internet companies that sell transnationally over auction sites. Koogle’s lawyer said that if French law could be invoked simply because the Yahoo! Internet site was available in France, then by the same token all jurisdictions in the world could be brought to bear. But for the state prosecutor’s office, which brought the appeal against Koogle’s acquittal, the logical conclusion of this argument was that no laws at all could be made to apply to an Internet company -- which was clearly untenable. The court agreed. I post this because it could be a look into the UN-ified future...and because I shudder to think of US companies and individuals potentially being hauled into sharia court for posting information that is "unislamic"... |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #5 And here I thought that the server location determined competence. Simplisme me. The idea that they're appealing an aquittal kinda grates, too. But I doubt Tim is stupid enough to physically enter French jurisdiction anyway, so who really cares? |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-3-20 5:19:07 PM |
| #4 I second the TK remarks. Instead of calling TK a Nazi, why don't they do something useful like ... oops, I forgot, we are talking about France here. |
| Posted by: Ol_Dirty_American 2004-3-20 10:41:59 AM |
| #3 It wouldn't suprise us if Saudi Arabia did this - why should it surprise us (any longer) that France does it too. France is lost. Spain is probably lost and Germany is on it's way down the same road. The past is gone - this is the new reality. We need to accept it. |
| Posted by: B 2004-3-20 9:45:34 AM |
| #2 F-cking French! Part that pisses me off is that TK is an all around good guy. To imply that he is some sort of pro-nazi by putting him on trial for this crap is disgusting. |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2004-3-20 8:12:23 AM |
| #1 So, when do we get to try Chirac and the French "intelligentsia" for selling their whole country to the Islamo-nazis? Can we try Al Reuters for selling a mountain of Islamo-fascist propaganda all over the net? |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-3-20 4:22:38 AM |