FC: French activists sue French ISPs to block U.S. "hate site"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:27:33 -0400
To: declan () well com
From: Michael Geist <mgeist () uottawa ca>
Subject: French group sues ISPs over hate site

Declan,

This report, forthcoming in this morning's Internet Law News (subscription 
info at http://www.bna.com/ilaw), may be of interest to your readers.

FRENCH GROUP SUES ISPS FOR FAILURE TO BLOCK HATE SITES
BNA's E-commerce Law Daily reports that a French Human
Rights group has launched a lawsuit against 14 French ISPs
for failing to block access to front14.org, a U.S.-based
hate Web site.  Defendants in the action include France
Telecom and AOL France.  The group notes that ISPs in other
countries, such as Switzerland, have taken steps to block
the site.  The case will be heard before Judge Jean-Jacques
Gomez, the judge who presided over the Yahoo! France case,
later this month.  A French version of the complaint can be
found at
http://www.chez.com/aipj/assignation1.htm
E-commerce Law Daily story at
<http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/ecd.nsf/id/A0A4H7A2X7_>

MG
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