Germany calls for ban of neo-Nazi sites abroad
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PATRICK McGROARTY
July 10, 2009
Germany's Justice Minister is calling for Internet service providers in the
U.S. and elsewhere to remove neo-Nazi images, text and other content that
can be viewed inside the country in violation of laws forbidding any Nazi
symbols.
It's doubtful, though, that Germany will have much luck persuading U.S.
companies to remove material that is legal in the United States.
Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries said her office would appeal to foreign
Internet providers to use their own terms of service as grounds for
eliminating content promoting the far-right ideal.
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Using ideology or symbols from the Nazis is forbidden in Germany, but
far-right groups that do not associate themselves with Nazis directly have
more leeway. Stefan Glaser, spokesman for a youth-protection group called
jugendschutz.net, said it catalogued 1,600 sites run by far-right extremists
last year, and that the number was growing.
--snip--
France, too, has laws restricting Nazi symbols and paraphernalia, and it
tried in 2000 to force Yahoo Inc. to prevent French Internet users from
seeing such items on its auction pages. Although Yahoo eventually banned
Nazi material, saying it did not want to profit from it, it continued to
challenge the application of French law to the U.S. company.
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Mark Perkins MLIS, MCLIP
www.markperkins.info
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