Fighting Nazi and Anti-Semitic Material on the Internet: The Yahoo! Case and It's Global Implications

Frydman, Benoit; Rorive, Isabelle

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1980196

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Fighting Nazi and Anti-Semitic Material on the Internet: The Yahoo! Case and It's Global Implications

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January 5, 2012

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The paper provides an analysis of the French Yahoo! case, a landmark case in global internet law, which led to the removal of Nazi paraphernalia from Yahoo! auction website and was the starting point of a fierce and spectacular transatlantic judicial battle about freedom of speech and content monitoring on the Internet.

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Keywords: Internet Law, Global Law, Freedom of Speech, Hate speech, Racist Speech, ISP liability, Transnational Litigation

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Date posted: January 6, 2012

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Frydman, Benoit and Rorive, Isabelle , Fighting Nazi and Anti-Semitic Material on the Internet: The Yahoo! Case and It's Global Implications (January 5, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1980196 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1980196

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Benoit Frydman (Contact Author) Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy ( email ) CP 132 Av FD Roosevelt 50 Brussels, Brussels 1050 Belgium
Isabelle Rorive affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Fighting Nazi and Anti-Semitic Material on the Internet: The Yahoo! Case and It's Global Implications

Benoit Frydman

Isabelle Rorive

Date posted: January 6, 2012

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Benoit Frydman (Contact Author)

Isabelle Rorive