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0 pointsmarcus_holmes9mo ago0 comments

IANAL, but international law precedent has allowed countries to prosecute web services for providing services to a country where that service is illegal. A French NGO successfully sued Yahoo! for selling Nazi memorabilia, a crime in France, despite Yahoo! being a US company [0], and this was upheld by US courts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICRA_v._Yahoo!

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fulafel9mo ago

Nitpick: International law is treaties between countries, the UN, customs like diplomatic immunity, etc. Here it was just about US and French domestic law.

marcus_holmesOP9mo ago

thanks for the clarification :)

jedberg9mo ago

> and this was upheld by US courts.

No it wasn't. It was overturned on appeal. But Yahoo stopped selling Nazi memorabilia anyway.

marcus_holmesOP9mo ago

I'm not a lawyer, but that's not how I read it. The appeal by Yahoo! was dismissed according to the wikipedia article, as I read it. How did you read it?

indecisive_user9mo ago

The first court ruled in Yahoo's favor and the appeals court ruled that neither it nor any lower court in the US had the power to adjudicate the matter altogether, which was kind of a loss for both yahoo and the French organization.

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fulafel9mo ago

Nitpick: International law is treaties between countries, the UN, customs like diplomatic immunity, etc. Here it was just about US and French domestic law.

marcus_holmesOP9mo ago

thanks for the clarification :)

jedberg9mo ago

> and this was upheld by US courts.

No it wasn't. It was overturned on appeal. But Yahoo stopped selling Nazi memorabilia anyway.

marcus_holmesOP9mo ago

I'm not a lawyer, but that's not how I read it. The appeal by Yahoo! was dismissed according to the wikipedia article, as I read it. How did you read it?

indecisive_user9mo ago

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