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The Boston Globe Monsieur, do you Yahoo?
"Sick of the American legal system? Take a break with me, and marvel at the curious workings of French law.

By now you've heard that a French judge, Jean-Jacques Gomez, has said that Yahoo must devise a way to prevent citizens of France from visiting parts of the Yahoo site that contain anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi materials.

American justice always provides a surfeit of goofy court rulings, so we scarcely need to import fresh nonsense from Paris. But rather than rail against the injustice of the Gomez decision, let's focus on a more practical question: Can it be enforced? Can an Internet company block access to citizens of a particular country, while leaving the rest of us free to surf wherever we wish?"

Silicon Alley Daily Don't Roll Your Eyes at the French This Time: What the French Ruling Against Yahoo Means for the Internet Masses
""[These] kinds of decisions, rulings, can be interpreted as the beginning of an ID card on the Web, possibly to identify people wherever they are and to create a new kind of identification on the Internet. And that is something that can be very disturbing in the long run.

"Even now, there is a cultural shock between Europeans and Americans on freedom of speech. In France we do have rules, regulations and laws that prevent such kind of content to be distributed on the Internet.

"[Freedom of speech] is important to American people, I understand it. At one time, I thought we could have a kind of collision between those two rules. We are deeply rooted in France on those issues. And what we say about Americans, about religion and content, about World War II, the Holocaust, the Shoah [is that] they don't know what it's like to be invaded on their ground, so to prevent some kind of content to be distributed, they don't have the same view."

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...[T]he Web log reflects our own attempts to assimilate the glut of immaterial data loosed upon us by the "discovery" of the networked world. And there are surely lessons for us in the parallel. For just as the cabinet of wonders took centuries to evolve into the more orderly, logically crystalline museum, so it may be a while before the chaos of the Web submits to any very tidy scheme of organization.”

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