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Yahoo!, Inc. v. LICRA
In December 2000, a French court
held U.S.-based Yahoo!, Inc. liable under a broad French anti-hate law for
content carried on its auction site in the United States, solely because
the site is accessible to French citizens. The ruling, which held Yahoo!
liable for postings of Nazi and other World War II memorabilia, holds
Yahoo! responsible for damages of nearly $100,000 a day unless it installs
filtering software to block all content from French citizens that might
violate that nation's anti-hate regulations.
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