[thelist] targeting effectively

David Kutcher david_kutcher at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 25 14:40:00 CST 2002


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From: "Eike Pierstorff" <eike.p at t-online.de>

> > 3. and how a company that is not registered in zimbabwe can
> > be sued under
> > zimbabwe's laws regulating the internet (sorry to pick on
> > zimbabwe, but
> > first non-US country to come to mind)
>
> voteauction.com (an austrian site) was deleted from the dns root server
> following a decision of an american court. Auction sites like Ebay are
> no longer allowed to sell swasticas and german Wehrmacht-uniforms in
> France (and they have to make sure that nobody can access such offers).
> American Nazi Gary Lauck was sued in Germay for (amongst other things)
> running an anti-semitic website (which was (and I think still is) hosted
> in the US).

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,s2082688,00.html

and what they have done is create a case-basis to eliminate users in France
from purchasing the items.  They did not make it so that their entire
presence catered to France (ie banning all Nazi items).



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