posted on February 21, 2001 07:10:32 PM new
It does not effect my auctions but for you who it does here is a news release from Time.
They say Yahoo will not comply with the court order to filter all of France, but have removed all such items from their site. Here is what the people who brought the suit say now.
I think the logical conclusion of this will be that it will become illegal to speak of the nazis at all within a generation anywhere in the western world.
One of the plaintiffs in the original French case, the League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, or LICRA, said it is content with the action taken by Yahoo! to remove the items. LICRA's main aim was to make sure that Nazi-related items were not available in France, where the sale of such goods is illegal. Marc Knobel, a member of the boardof LICRA, said, "It didn't matter to us how they got rid of the items. I was not for filtering in itself. What counts for us is to get this stuff off the site."
While LICRA may be content with the turn of events at Yahoo!, it isn't about to give up its fight against Nazi content. Knobel has turned his attention to eBay.
He said: "I've contacted eBay asking them why they have Nazi items." The U.S. site currently offers about 3,500 such items for sale, he said.
