SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nazi Memorabilia, 1998 Fifa World Cup, Machine Learning
21 May 2017
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National laws and policies: what complicates internet law: Intangible & continually changing; non transparent; anonymous: does not exist. In many countries: amalgam of policies developed for traditional media industries: predominantly national basis of laws and legal systems, yahoo! Vs. france: 1998 (date not that important) marc knobel finds nazi hate sites on aol, 2000. Knobel finds collection of nazi mementos hosted by yahoo: knobels goes to french court, yahoo! Shrugs its high tech shoulders (cid:449)e (cid:449)ill (cid:374)ot (cid:272)o(cid:373)ply. Yahoo says i do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) who my users are. Sizeable french subsidiary: 13k fine per day, yahoo execs in europe subject to legal process, 2001: yahoo goes to us court. Judgment: french judgment inapplicable in the us (first amendment: the case goes to us court of appeals, on january 2, 2001, yahoo abruptly surrendered, all nazi materials removed from its auction sites, why did yahoo surrender, bad publicity.
